Ray Mabus: “The Navy and Marine Corps remain the most formidable expeditionary fighting force in the world.”

But if you've got someone issuing unlawful orders during that time, trying to hold on to power after an election that they lost, then foreign adversaries, they're going to seize on that.

It insulates us from these price spikes that basically, today, the American economy, and more importantly, American families are being held hostage by dictators around the world.

The fact that we allow these tyrants and dictators like Putin to basically hold our families and our economy hostage for their bad acts.

I would never, ever, ever do anything to lower the combat readiness or the reliability of the United States military.