Ash Carter: “It will be self-defeating and self-isolating for China, so I hope they don't do that.”

Chairman McCain, I appreciate your comments to our Service Chiefs about the damage the CR can do to our institution.

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.

The United States will not ignore attempts to interfere with our democratic processes.

We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets, because the lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our enterprise at DOD.