if you are going to cut the State Department, you better give me more ammunition.
I share the concerns about other parts of the budget.
we need the Pentagon to start spending the money more wisely than it has been spending it.
Artificially sticking to those budget caps has almost nothing to do with fiscal responsibility.
I think to the extent that we rely on that political talking point it undercuts the fact that this all happened because of the battle over t...
this committee, and I know there has been bipartisan expression to this, is unalterably opposed to taking money out of DOD to fund the borde...
the comment that funding a border wall out of the Department of Defense is also unbelievably irresponsible.
no greater authority on that subject than current chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said exactly that.
You have served your country incredibly well, do an outstanding job, and we have always had a very open dialogue.
As I like to put it, they want to make the world safe for kleptocratic autocracy.
Thank you, and I want to welcome our witnesses, members of the audience, members of the committee.