Tammy Baldwin

Ahead of this year's budget I sent you a letter asking that the fiscal year 2025 budget reflect more realistic procurement numbers, and again this year, the budget request is insufficient.

For many years, I have pressed the Army to adequately fund these platforms, and we are here today looking at another inadequate budget request.

For the last 2 years, I secured increases to the Navy's budget specifically to expand the Frigate workforce and industrial base.

In my view, it's not merely that the Navy failed to perform sufficient oversight as you mentioned in your response but that the Navy has directly contributed to the delay by requesting substantial design changes as well as a slowly…

I am disappointed that it took the Navy 15 months to obligate the fiscal year 2023 funds.

I was surprised to hear that the Navy estimates that the Frigate will be delayed by as many as 36 months.

Wisconsin's Industrial Base is something, of course, that is always on my mind.

I am worried that the Army's management of these programs and their associated industrial base.

I share the Air National Guard's concerns about the slow pace of fuel tanker recapitalization.

I am eager to discuss how appropriators can continue to support this critical mission.

The work that our Customs, and Border Protection, and Homeland Security do at our southern border is essential to keeping families across the country, and in Wisconsin safe.

I was also proud to vote to advance the Bipartisan Border Security Bill that would have, among other things, invested in high-tech border security...

Between 2019 and 2021, opioid overdose deaths in Wisconsin grew by a staggering 97 percent. In no small part due to synthetic fentanyl.

Our trade policy is being abused. It is being abused by companies from China that make products with forced labor, or sell counterfeit goods...

I am proud that many of these vehicles are made wholly, or in part, in the State of Wisconsin.

The Army routinely submits a budget with a request for tactical wheeled vehicles at numbers substantially below industry's minimum sustaining rate.

I remain troubled by the Army's lack of careful management of the industrial base, as I see it.

I have pressed the Army to adequately fund these platforms, and we are here today looking at another inadequate budget request.

I take issue with your answer and I want to--you seem to minimize the Navy's shared responsibility for challenges facing that program.

I worked to secure funding for the industrial base and workforce development programs that would support growing the skilled workforce.

I was surprised to hear that the Navy estimates that the Frigate will be delayed by as many as 36 months.

I am worried that the Army's management of these programs and their associated industrial base.

Wisconsin's Industrial Base is something, of course, that is always on my mind.

I share the Air National Guard's concerns about the slow pace of fuel tanker recapitalization.

We need additional transparency to inform our policies.