I accepted the numbers from the President, whose budget office gave that program a lower priority by virtue of the fact it was supposed to be temporary. So in years 3 and 4 we have accepted the numbers of the President's budget and then just continued those numbers for years 5 and 6. This is not a drastic reduction, but it is one small step we can take to at least show some sense of fiscal responsibility.
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Mr. Chairman, Representative Jacobs, the fact is that our current system has deteriorated and aged to the point that we wouldn't be confident in the deterrent value of it on out into the future.
The threat briefings that we received leave no question that both China and Russia, but particularly China see space as a war fighting domain.
The first thing we've got to do is have a conventional capability which is so dominant that no party would ever consider a nuclear attack against the United States.
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