to lay all of the blame on the current President of the United States I think shortchanges the reality of how Congress has failed.

I hope Congress has learned a hard lesson: that we should not hold our national debt limit hostage over arbitrary spending caps.

I voted for the Fiscal Responsibility Act, not because I agreed with the spending levels in the deal, but because this country could not afford to default on its debts.

the Space Force, in my opinion, was hastily put together. I am not opposed to the fact that we have a Space Force; but Congress, in my opinion, did not give all the due diligence as to how this was going to be organized.

48 of the 50 Governors signed a letter in opposition.

We need to start making sure that they are included in how we are moving forward and addressing this.

this would be dead on arrival.

It needs to be resolved. It needs to be resolved immediately.

If we do not enact a supplemental, how will this impact the services' fiscal year 2024 base activities?

States put significant amounts of money into National Guard, whether it is tuition reimbursement, whether it is into, you know, equipment, land, and other things like that.

70 percent of Guard members wish to stay in the Guard.

the States need to be consulted and need to be full partners moving forward.