Don Bacon: “I actually dug into this whole matter. I just want to address it: It was a one-day pause, which is typical for…”

The founders made it very hard to … pass things unless there’s consensus. Madison would be proud of the work he did.

It's not good for our national security, and we are allies. We have to work together to counter Russia, to counter China.

I think it would have been better to acknowledge, hey, long deployments are hard.

We still have the advantage, but we have to be patient.