Ash Carter: “The Department remains prepared and postured to bolster the security of regional partners, including Israel, to defend…”

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

I can't support, and won't support, is anything that moves towards instability.

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.