Are we giving up options that were previously available to us to exercise before we reach an armed conflict by a budget that is substantially cutting the State Department and other agencies of soft power, such as USAID?

it is unacceptable, and there is a price to pay for doing this.

In your hard power options, you need additional materiel.

It is, in your opinion, not a matter of if, it is a matter of when.

I think the jury is out. It is early days? We will have to see if China has changed its view of its willingness to influence KJU.

His goal is a nuclear warhead--these are my words, but I think it is what you meant--married to an ICBM that would have the capability of getting to the U.S.

I rise today to express serious concern about reports in the press that the administration is considering deep cuts in funding to crucial aspects of our Nation's national security and our homeland security to pay for the construction of a…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Budget Cuts

Would additional economic sanctions against Russia help, in your opinion?

Our Major Range and Test Facility Bases are unable to maintain pace technologically with our advanced fifth and sixth generation weapons delivery systems.

if you are supporting a budget that whacks the State Department and USAID, you well know you are not only a warrior, you are a diplomat

If China does not deter him, there is only one deterrence left, and that is the United States kinetic action.