Richard Shelby: “Now, if you are not going to charge for the risk, who is going to be charged for the risk?”

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

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

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.

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.