Ash Carter: “I define priorities for United States military assistance to Taiwan based on an evaluation and assessment of its…”

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.

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

China has and shares important responsibility for this development and has an important responsibility to reverse it.