I support the President's decision. It is not an easy decision. It is not a win-win-win decision where everything is going to be fine.

One of the lessons that I hope we've learned is the limitations on our ability as a nation and certainly as a military to impose better outcomes on other countries.

Things are going to be bad in Afghanistan. There is no question about that.

But the option we have is to send more U.S. and coalition troops to Afghanistan to, once again, full scale fight the Taliban.

Thankfully, there is effort by Representatives Adam Smith and Seth Moulton that would increase the fund to $40,000.

We should never be in a position where we lose a sale like that, let's say, of a Patriot missile system, to a NATO ally against a competitor like the Russians.

I think we also, as a Congress, need to acknowledge that many of those transnational criminal organizations that are trafficking drugs are in place, in part, because of America's insatiable appetite for those drugs.

Because those organizations have become more powerful and more sophisticated over the last several years, and the policies of the last 4 years, like 'Remain in Mexico,' which is being unwound now by this administration, title 42, which has…

They are looking to export an ideology, an authoritarian ideology, and they are also looking to diminish our influence in the world.

China is, without question, the largest national security challenge and competitor that we have in the world today.

The idea that we can build a military large enough and strong enough to dominate China in the modern world is not realistic and is fraught with danger.

I think it is incredibly important that the United States stay present in the Indo-Pacific region.