Walter B. Jones: “The American taxpayer is absolutely frustrated and broke because of these overseas activities.”

In 2013, you tweeted, 'Let's get out of Afghanistan. Our troops are being killed by the Afghanis we train, and we waste billions there. Nonsense. Rebuild the United States of America.'

I wrote to President Trump, had it delivered on July the 18th. I wanted him, if he was going raise the troop levels in Afghanistan, to please come to Congress, ask Congress to meet its constitutional responsibility and have a debate.

Why do we in Congress keep increasing the budget? I am all for the warfighter. He or she deserves whatever we can give them.

I want to talk about the graveyard of empires. I think that is what they say about Afghanistan and the history of Afghanistan.