09/19/2023
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"We should be expanding and modernizing our naval capabilities. We absolutely should not go along with the administration's plan to cut these capabilities."
"Yesterday the intelligence community briefed the Senate, the much talked about timeline. And we basically have 5 years, 2027, until the Chinese Communist Party believes they have overmatch in the West..."
"I'm not buying that we can make up for a 105-ship delta that they can concentrate all in one ocean with short supply lines."
"I think we have allowed this committee and the building to fall into a false choice of readiness versus modernization."