I do think that what Secretary Esper has done with the bottom-up review... is a very appropriate thing to be doing.

We can't keep doing things the same way we have done them to date.

I think we need to make clearer to the American public why we have troops deployed in Europe...

I feel very strongly that, as I think every member of this committee does, that the NATO alliance has served our country very well.

It is becoming hard to keep up with what the president is saying and what the president is doing. He is making promises that he didn't see fit to push through his legislation in his three and a half years as president. And at the same…

The military has made clear to me, and we have had conversations about this, they will not follow an illegal order. They will not follow an order that would illegally help the president overturn the election. They will uphold the…

we are very concerned about how those priorities were set and the impact that it might have on the programs that were cut going forward.

It doesn't say anything in there about money for a southern border wall, and yet we are going to take the money out of our programs, put it in there, and then come back to us and say, oh, it is an unfunded requirement.

how do we figure out maybe to get more resources, how do we figure out to perhaps change what the strategy is to better match those resources

We just--you know, we want this money. We don't want to put it on the budget because we, you know, have budget caps to deal with, so we are going to call it emergency funding so it can be, you know, quote, off budget, unquote.

the challenge going forward, which we have talked about a lot in this committee is, as always happens with us, so you are consistently asked to do more than you have the resources to do