Tom Cole: “Congress has given the Department of Defense more money than…”

“I want to thank one other entity while I'm chatting here, and that's the United States Congress, because General Milley went through the higher state of operational readiness we have and some of the things we accomplished struck me that Congress has given the Department of Defense more money than President Trump asked for and more money than President Biden has asked for. So Congress is in a sense responsible for those higher rates of readiness because we've used our judgment to say whatever the president's asked for may all be good.” (00:33–01:04)

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