Political Quotes

“Let's just be honest. This amendment does not do anything for funding for COVID or funding for healthcare. This is, straight and simple, defund DOD, and that is it. We have just come off of sequestration where we saw our planes falling out of the sky during training, where we saw our men and women in uniform working in buildings that we couldn't even repair. At my own base, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, they didn't even have enough money to turn the lights on in buildings that people were working in. This is not sequestration. This is like sequestration on steroids. This would be the biggest cut, much more than sequestration ever had. It actually works out to about a 16 percent cut, not 10 percent, because of the things that are exempted. So the money doesn't go where the author says it is going to go to. It does hurt our national security, and it does hurt our men and women in uniform. It cuts military housing; it cuts education; it cuts military family programs; it cuts research and development; but, most importantly, it cuts training. It goes right to the heart of making it unsafe once again for our men and women in uniform just to keep our country safe. This isn't money down the drain. This is money every day that keeps us at peace. {time} 1615”