We cannot cannibalize the capacity of our own capabilities or our strategic partners to meet the demands and commitments to Ukraine. I'll end with this. The president has also sent a veto threat to the US Congress, House and Senate that he will veto the NDAA with a specific focus and rationale for that veto being a $2 billion cost footprint to give our junior enlisted a pay raise that they deserve and is long overdue. Our current enlisted members start at $22,000 a year. My pay raise for junior enlisted would take that starting salary from $22,000 to $31,200 a year. (07:21–07:38)
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Asserts that the president has threatened to veto the NDAA due to a $2 billion cost for a pay raise for junior enlisted members.
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