Deborah Lee James: “I feel that our national security concerns would be compromised too much, and again, realize these are tough budget…”

It takes two to tango, and we can have all the urgency in the world, but we cannot give away the farm if the negotiation does not go well.

If we return to sequestration in fiscal year 2018, this will exacerbate the readiness problem and set us even farther back.

We made assumptions that we wouldn't be using Army forces in Europe the way we used to, we made assumptions that we wouldn't go back into Iraq--and here we are back in Iraq, here we are worried about Russia again.

We cannot get our job done without our Guard and Reserve.