05/15/2023
https://www.congress.gov...
"Our agreement with the White House is that the President will select from among the three that the two of us send to him."
"How can you deploy those forces in a way that you're meeting these expanding threats?"
"When we pull out of Afghanistan, do you feel confident that you can keep enough SOF in the area so that if, for example, something happened that we had to go back in, that we can do it on a quick turn..."
"the absence of one will make things significantly more difficult to conduct the counterterrorism operations that SOCOM and CENTCOM work in conjunction with the interagency."