Richard Shelby: “We are always going to have in a market system winners and losers, failures and success, and that is the genius of the…”

Deterrence requires spending our limited resources on both offensive and defensive weapons.

Because the administration has refused to fund the construction of a comprehensive barrier along the border, it has been compelled to send the National Guard to deal with the consequences.

I remain concerned that the Air Force budget request is insufficient considering the needed modernization across the inventory with a rapidly evolving threat.

As Senator Shelby at our Senate testimony hearing last March pointed out to us, we must maintain what we have before we can build new, and I think he hits the mark head-on.