Ash Carter: “I do think it is important, and I don't think there is any inherent conflict between religious freedom and religious…”

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.

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

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

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