The immediate short-term impact of that is that we are going to hit the debt ceiling sooner than we had expected to because less revenue is coming into the Treasury.

We are pulling back again. This budget that is being proposed guts development.

It is our paramount obligation to make sure that we fund that, that we do not have a situation where we give them so many tasks but not enough resources to train for them.

Dialogue is incredibly important to deterrence.

I do not believe that great power rivalry equals endless arms race.

We need allies. We need friends.

We are $21 trillion in debt, and counting. The deficit last year was close to $700 billion, and it is going up, not down.

And I think we need to understand it in that context and push back comprehensively to try and create a world that is safe for freedom and democracy.

So to sit here and say, you know, we are going to stand up, spend all this money on defense because it would just be wrong to prioritize other things is patently absurd and insulting.

One of the biggest things China is doing is they are spending a ton of money all across the world to try to curry favor with countries and also build their own economic might.

Deterrence is also your diplomatic stance. Deterrence is dialogue.

We cannot do new starts, we cannot get into cyber protection, the very thing you hold dear, because we do not have the ability to do so under continuing resolutions, 9 out of the last 10 years.