Richard Spencer: “I could not in good conscience, unquote, obey President Trump's order.”

Your Navy-Marine Corps team remains very capable; however, our competitive advantage is being challenged.

It would be devastating. For all the money that you have given us, the 2017 RAA, the 2018 and 2019 budget, we are up on the bicycle. We are pedaling down the street. We go into a CR, we fall off the bike, period.

Our budget submission supports building a more lethal, resilient, and agile force to deter and defeat aggression.

It has cost us $4 billion. That is not lost opportunity; that is $4 billion in cash in a trash can with lighter fluid, burn it.