And today especially the pacing threat is China. This bill does just that. It helps us not only accelerate programs, but keep pace with China in a budget constrained environment of only $833 billion. We are trying to gain efficiency so that it behaves like $1 trillion. and it supports all the weapons systems from high to low. B21 supporting protecting U2 classified programs and in my opinion, the most important thing, a 20% pay raise for E1s through E4s. (00:19–00:24)
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Asserts that efforts are being made to make the $833 billion defense budget function as if it were $1 trillion.
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