"the acting secretary acknowledged that he requested that this be defunded."
"Do you realize the extent to which you have undermined President Biden and the United States in indicating that a weapons system that is nuclear is going to be unilaterally defunded without any negoti..."
"Do you know the extent to which you have undermined the President of the United States in his arms control negotiations by undertaking what can only be described as a unilateral, you alone having done..."
"I always like to point out that, prior to the deployment of Iron Dome, the critics of missile defense used to say that it is too expensive, it is escalatory, and that it won't work."
"We must replenish the Iron Dome system and help advance next-generation missile defense technology developed by the United States and Israel."
"I am very concerned in where it has placed us in that it is so late, having received it in June."
"The missile defense budget is just one example of where the Biden defense budget comes up short."
"We don't have a copy of the previous best 200 study that was completed at the end of the Obama administration. Would you commit to providing that to the committee?"
"I believe that unilateral disarmament is certainly, you know, as a policy, idiotic because we don't have a support for our deterrence and certainly we have no bargaining chips when we meet with our ad..."
"It is a hell of a way to start a dialogue is to call for the canceling."
"I am very concerned and I think we are all shocked to have heard the news of the Acting Secretary of the Navy appearing to take action to zero out the sea-launched cruise missile."