Congress should be leading on finding savings, not just adding dollars to our defense budget.

As Chairman McCain has noted in his just-released White Paper, the combined effects of nearly $1.5 trillion of cuts over a decade have been devastating to our military.

As President Trump assumes the awesome responsibilities of his office, he has inherited a world on fire and a U.S. military weakened by years of senseless budget cuts.

Chairman McCain himself has called these overruns absolutely outrageous.

Too many Americans seem to have forgotten that our world order is not self-sustaining.

The epitome of this forgetfulness is the Budget Control Act of 2011, which cut and arbitrarily capped defense spending for a decade.

I commend President Trump for talking about the cost of the F-35, and I hope that we can do something about that.

Like sequestration, it is kind of a cowardly act because it is authentication that we cannot make the tough decisions ourselves.

some of the things that Senator McCain recommended in his budget in terms of letting the Navy who for years wanted to buy F/A-18E's and F's rather than the F-35's.

Do not take it from other things that make this country strong.

I would also remind you that the first thing--the first thing--that President Reagan--his first priority was rebuilding the military.