Lloyd Austin: “It is not. It is one that would be controlled by autocrats, eventually, if they were to dominate the Indo-Pacific, and…”

The United States had no part to play in that crash, and so - and that's a fact plain and simple.

in the fiscal year 2024 budget we asked you for a 5.2 percent pay raise, and that is the largest pay raise in 20 years.

If we don't fund State and others to the right level, then we are going to need more bullets because they do great and important work to move things towards greater stability and security in all regions of the world.

We owe it to the members of the community to ensure that we do in fact do this.