Ash Carter: “I have to say, this approach is deeply flawed and troubling.”

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

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.

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

This, for the eighth fiscal year in a row. That's a deplorable state of affairs.