You will determine whether we win our next war. Either you, our companies, our industries, our defense industrial base, deliver or we fail. It is literally life or death. Every dollar squandered on redundancy, bureaucracy and waste is a dollar that could be used to outfit and supply the war fodder. We must wage an all out campaign to streamline the Pentagon's process, to unshackle our people from unproductive work and to shift our resources from the bureaucracy to the battlefield. (03:02–03:10)
CLAIM
Asserts that wasteful spending in the defense budget detracts from military readiness.
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