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Michael George Glen Waltz is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who has served as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 6th congressional district since January 3, 2019. A former Green Beret, Waltz has a strong background in national security and has focused on issues related to defense and veterans during his time in office. He has been an advocate for military families and has worked on legislation to support their needs.
I just want to take a moment. I have no issue in principle with more Joint Strike Fighters. We need more Joint Strike Fighters, and we need to continue to modernize our aviation fleet. My issue here is where the money for it comes from. As…
I thank Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Rogers for their strong bipartisan product that is worthy of our servicemembers. I also thank the chairman of the Readiness Subcommittee, Representative Garamendi, for his thoughtful and…
I think it made sense to make it job specific. It obviously takes a lot more physicality being an infantryman then to be a cyber warrior or a pilot.
So, my question is, why are you taking authority away from warfighters, and essentially giving it back to the bureaucracy?
How about if we move in that direction. But separately, I would hope, and I'll just leave you with this, that the Army always has a goal to have the most lethal vehicle fleet, not the one that emits the less carbon.
We should be expanding and modernizing our naval capabilities. We absolutely should not go along with the administration's plan to cut these capabilities.
I think it's very important for the American people to see visually the trend lines of what's going on with our Navy, and what's going on with the Chinese Navy.
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.
In my opinion that is a decade and a half too late and insufficient considering the clear overmatch in capacity the Chinese will have in the Pacific.
I think we have allowed this committee and the building to fall into a false choice of readiness versus modernization.
I don't understand how this administration can conclude that making the size of our fleet even smaller will somehow deter China.
It's clear that this budget fails to invest in the capabilities required to deter conflict and, if necessary, to win the next war. I refuse to support it.
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 Western Pacific.
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The Chinese Communist Party will believe they have overmatch within the next 5 to 7 years.
We have a system that's 25 years in the making and still not sustained and ready.
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I think what we are asking is if this doesn't work, we plow ahead and it doesn't work--as you hope it will particularly with new IT systems being developed as well, we know how government IT goes--what is the backup plan?
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