Michael Waltz

it will take 18 years to process that many visas. These people are being hunted down by the Taliban right now, as we speak. Despite the President and your boss, the Secretary, lauding this as an outstanding success, it was an absolute…

Biden’s sitting National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sent Top Secret messages to Hillary Clinton’s private account. And what did DOJ do about it? Not a damn thing.

How is it Hillary Clinton can delete 33,000 government emails on a private server yet President Trump gets indicted for having documents he could declassify?

I look forward to working with you, and I think we need a tiger team here in the Congress to peel back these layers and understand where we can accelerate authorities.

the fact that you're not slapping the table saying, it's not happening, Mr. Congressman, I can tell you that, I think would be outrageous to every American, and I can tell you that this House, this committee, will seek to cut those funds…

I would look forward to the committee coming back to me with real systems, not kind of a hope and a prayer on third party monitoring in, essentially, a denied space.

I think we should go to default consensus, and particularly if the Defense Department has serious national security concerns.

I just received a call from a senior cadet who has decided not to join the Air Force because he was number one in his ROTC program but he was told by his department that they have never had a woman at the top and so he was going to be…

What safeguards are in place to ensure that the Department of the Navy isn't helping fund the Chinese Communist Party's industrial complex by purchasing photovoltaic cells and modules sourced from China?

I would encourage that, obviously. But, also, if we could have a followup and if you could share that with us. Because we are putting measures in place, or authorizing measures--it needs to be based on data, not what we think is going on…

I think they are fundamental to the type of fighting force that we have.

We have narratives--COVID, wokeism, extremism, what have you. We have a lot of thoughts on narratives. Do you have data that you can send the committee?

I don't think these conversations are silly at all. I think they are fundamental to the type of fighting force that we have.

It needs to be based on data, not what we think is going on.

What are we doing to change that, to make sure that the demographics of our military represent the demographics of our country at all levels?

Can you come back and work with me, and work with the committee, on a plan there?

I would certainly encourage you to take a hard look at that.

The Air National Guard currently fields 5 rapidly deployable Electromagnetic Warfare Squadrons that can provide Combatant Commands with a variety of offensive space control options at a time of crisis.

I want to work with the service on how to accelerate that.

The FCC has 60 to 65,000 applications of backlog, right? That is 65,000 birds waiting to go up.

I don't see how we get that many launches up to support what we need in the proliferated architecture.

Why aren't we opening that up to other commercial providers that can provide those same-day, day-of-launch services?

Can you talk to me about a recap plan for the Air Guard?

This continued support is at risk domestically, politically, here if we don't see the administration getting results.

The American people are sick and tired of this.