Despite repeated investments in the defense industrial base and the shipbuilding industrial base in particular, we don't really see improvements towards ships being delivered on cost and on time.
Jon Tester: “Despite repeated investments in the defense industrial base and the shipbuilding industrial base in particular, we don't…”
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Tester highlights ongoing issues with shipbuilding delays and cost overruns despite investments.
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I think it’d be a mistake, a -- really a mistake for national security and for food security.
I think we need to take these things seriously. I think the president and I think, more importantly, the military are taking it very, very seriously.
There's plenty of examples of it. The Mission Act is a prime example. The fastest growing part of the V.A. budget. Why? Because we privatizing V.A. health care and its costing us more money, not less.
I think it's really important for food security. The folks -- this is a ban against China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, folks who don't want to see us exist anymore as a nation.





