Ashton Carter actually said...

What we need is what I hope is going on now, which is a true budget agreement.

Carter emphasizes the need for a comprehensive budget agreement for the Department of Defense.

03/23/2015

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the mechanism of sequester which makes us cut everything in proportion is dumb from any kind of managerial point of view.

We need to detrigger sequestration.

What I would like us to do is spend the time trying to make sure that we stop this thing that just about everybody agrees is bad policy from...

We know how much is going to be cut; roughly, we know what it is going to be cut from.