How do you balance moving money out of the Department of the Army at the same time you are coming back to Congress, saying, oh, by the way, there are unfunded priorities, such as the Fort Drum project?

I would like to go back to the space force proposal, because in the budget document that was submitted, section 1707, I mean, there is some pretty extraordinary transfer authorities which the administration is proposing.

Thank you for your leadership on this issue which is definitely sweeping the country.

Section 1707 of the Space Force proposal asks for authority to involuntarily assign military and civilian personnel to the Space Force.

the President has declared war again on the Affordable Care Act but again, our mission is just to keep again using the best information possible because health care is such a dynamic issue

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, and thank you for your leadership on this issue which is definitely sweeping the country.

I would like to just change the subject for a minute to talk about, recently, the Coast Guard actually was part of a deployment in the Straits of Taiwan.

During the shutdown, there was this view that, you know, again, this was not part of the DOD fabric, and obviously what they are doing out there really rebuts that narrative.

the fact of the matter is the ship is really a 2023 ship.

They, as far as I am concerned, completely abdicated on what everybody realizes must happen if we are going to move forward with a budget.

Again, that really doesn't add up to a very good business case in terms of, you know, the very tough decisions that we are going to have to make.

It actually was $10.4 billion. And, actually, $2.3 billion came from the Army.

I call the meeting to order.

I think it is a pretty safe bet that the top line for defense is going to come down when the two chambers actually do what should have been done over the last 3 months.

It just seems, to me, really premature for the Department to, again, come forward with a decommissioning or mothballing of the Truman.

I would just say, you almost get whiplash around here trying to sort of follow the back-and-forth coming out of the Department.

I just wanted to cover an issue which again, it has been another sort of topic over the last two or three Congresses for this subcommittee, which is that Air Mobility Command recently acknowledged safety issues associated with the legacy…

Well, I want to thank both the witnesses and, again, working with us on the floor votes.

Mr. Courtney, if you could just yield for a second.

Does the Air Force to consider the NP-2000 upgrade a safety upgrade or an efficiency upgrade?

I think that would, hopefully, be the case.

Congresswoman Shalala is very excited about this bill, obviously, so--

Hopefully, this is going to be the year that the 116th Congress reauthorizes the Higher Ed.

This morning, myself along with a lot of my colleagues on this committee are reintroducing the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Bill.

we are very optimistic this is the year to move forward on it.