Mr. Secretary, I believe that you've worked very, very hard from our conversations to prioritize the requests. But you have to admit the numbers that the American people are hearing about are eye popping. Air Force and Space Force, the request would increase by 90 to billion. And that increase alone, to put it into perspective, is the entire budget of Commerce, justice and science appropriation bills. General Saltzman, $71 billion for Space Force would be three times the size of the NASA budget. (17:10–17:17)
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Asserts that the budget request for the Air Force and Space Force would increase by $90 billion.
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