I am interested in--we have been talking about a 355-ship Navy I think for the entire time that I have been in Congress.
We are going to go ahead and get started. We have a full committee hearing this morning to discuss the fiscal year 2021 national defense aut...
I think that is very, very damaging to the Pentagon.
This effort to keep stealing money for the wall is really undermining the Department of Defense.
I am deeply concerned about the precedent being set by the Secretary's submission to the Administration's political agenda.
If our NATO allies cannot even rely on us to come through on a... MILCON project... how much can they rely on us?
I think that is a violation of our constitutional responsibility and significantly undercuts the Department of Defense.
I respect and appreciate that work. I look forward to continuing to work with you.
Put most directly, Russia and China are now aggressively pushing an alternative view of the world, and of governance.
That alternative view is based on autocracy, the idea that democracy doesn't work, freedom doesn't work, you need to have a strong man.
That is a way to stand up to China because together we have half the world's GDP and we are dealing from strength.