Defense Drumbeat

Today, the Dallas Morning News featured a column by Ranking Member Thornberry in which he once again raised the alarm about the dangers of a full-year Continuing Resolution. You can read excerpts below:

Every day under a CR damages our military and undermines the recent fragile progress of repairing and rebuilding it. If Congress and the White House do not change course soon, I am deeply concerned the Pentagon will find itself under a CR for a full year...
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The Department of Defense has provided Congress with some of the known impacts of a long-term continuing resolution. For example, our supply of precision weapons used to target terrorists is severely depleted. Under a CR, the Air Force will have to cut procurement of these munitions dramatically. When full funding for the military is eventually approved, it will take months, if not years, to rebuild the stockpile, and the weapons themselves will be more expensive...

The brave men and women who risk their lives to serve our country deserve better than that. They and their families make sacrifices because they believe in our country, and they should not be pawns in the political squabbling that defines Washington these days. Congress and the Trump administration must do more than pay lip service to our troops' accomplishments. They should fully fund national security for the rest of the year.

​Read The Full Column Here
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