Richard Shelby: “I think the nominee, as far as I know, is probably a well-qualified, very honorable, very smart man.”

A complex and evolving security environment requires a serious commitment to our national defense.

Russia's launched multiple hypersonic weapons as part of their invasion of the Ukraine and China is continuing to develop its own hypersonic weapons.

Regrettably, this was all predictable and avoidable.

I am deeply concerned, however, that the administration's failure to direct the appropriate resources to the crisis at the southern border has resulted in shifting the burden to the Guard.