Ash Carter: “I strongly support the President in requesting a defense budget above the artificial caps of the Budget Control Act.”

"Up-or-out" isn't broken--in fact, it's an essential and highly successful system--but it's also not perfect.

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

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

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