Jon Tester

Yet we continue to fiddle and do Putin's bidding.

I do not think it is acceptable to be continuing to say: Don't worry about this, it is coming.

As far as the Navy and the Air Force goes, do you guys use that account and do you feel same way as Secretary Bush feels?

It is long past time to get these funds signed into law.

I just think it is critically important, and I think that if we don't get a good solid timeline about when things are going to happen, and I anticipate that is going to happen in June, then we can anticipate that we will never hit that…

We need to understand what risks this lower budget creates for our military personnel, our operations around the globe, and our modernization efforts.

The amount that is in this budget... is inadequate. And I think it is inadequate because there was the decision made to put a 1 percent cap down months ago. That was a bad decision.

We've got challenges out there in this acquisition sphere whether it's competition, whether it's workforce, whether it's timelines, whether it's meeting costs, whether it's the continuing CR baloney, and I'm being generous when I say…

This is a very dangerous time in which we live, in my lifetime, probably comparable to the early '60s with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Headlines and delays like this should constitute a full-blown emergency for the Navy and the shipbuilding industry.

The truth is, is that those additional investments also include people's lives if we don't do what we need to do today.

Providing our guardsmen and reservists the best possible training and equipment, just like their active-duty counterparts, is a national security imperative.

Look, I have repeatedly called upon Secretary Mayorkas, and President Biden, and Congress, to step up and fix what is going on in the southern border.

If the world were becoming safer, then perhaps such a reduction could be absorbed with little risk to national security. But unfortunately, that is not the world in which we live.

We need to coordinate between defense, diplomacy, and development to be as effective as possible.

I support the ongoing efforts of Senators Murray and Collins to chart a path forward that will work, and will work with anyone to get this job done.

Congress dropped the ball on that because that would have changed things dramatically.

I think that is ineptness on Congress' part, not on yours, and we tend to tie your hands behind your back when we don't get budgets done on time.

How can we look at the request for only one Virginia Class Submarine in fiscal year 2025, as anything but a pretty enormous step back for our industrial base?

But we have failed miserably in getting the budget done on time.

I want to thank you all for your testimony and your concise answers with the questions. We appreciate that.

We need to make sure we're increasing the industrial base so that they can meet these goals

We must be clear-eyed that this budget request would represent a real cut in funding for the Department of Defense as it fails to keep pace with inflation.

The Sentinel Project is a project that is near and dear to both Senator Hoeven and me.

Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed, and we were able to come together in a bipartisan manner to avert a catastrophic Government default and shutdown.