And I commend you for working to make sure that our partners are beginning to step forward. NATO remains a critical pillar of collective defense, while Our alliances across the Indo Pacific are indispensable to building a credible deterrent against rising aggression in that region. I'm interested today in hearing how this budget strengthens those partnerships and how the department's working to ensure that our allies are investing at levels commensurate with the threats that they as well as we face together. (03:22–03:35)
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