requires us to subtract from our budget for the remainder of fiscal year 2013 $46 billion.
Rebalancing toward the Asia-Pacific region is a whole-of-government approach for the United States and a key pillar of the defense strategy.
The only good solution is to detrigger sequestration and pass appropriations bills.
Wounded Warriors are a priority for the Department and will be protected above all else.
It is part of our strategy to maintain what we call, exactly as you said, light footprint presence in many parts of the world.
sequestration will have devastating effects for national defense.
we will provide that information.
We need to deal very quickly and broadly with our deficit problems in a balanced way that the President can support and Congress can support...
The cloud of uncertainty hanging over our Nation's defense affairs is already having lasting and irreversible effects.
Allies, partners, friends, and potential foes the world over need to know that we have the political will to implement the defense strategy ...
the consequences of sequestration if it was to occur. Now the wolf is at the door.