C. Scott Franklin: “Congress needs independent check and balance---- and GAO provides that.”

Congress needs independent check and balance.

It is critically important for us to support our eastern NATO allies, like the Baltics, Poland, and Romania.

I commend the critical investments contained within this request, especially in the undersea capabilities and the continued procurement of Armed Overwatch.

But at some point we are going to be forced to make the hard choices to do reallocation.