Troy Meink: “A lot of the investments we've just been talking about to…”

“Because my Democratic friends, and they are my friends, want to play politics before the midterm elections without a reconciliation and a year long cr that keeps us at the 890ish total that would have significant impacts on our readiness. A lot of the investments we've just been talking about to meet the threats from the, the unmanned vehicles as well as the increased readiness for weapon systems to increase the F35 readiness as well as ammunitions procurement, all that is substantially impacted if we stayed at 890 without a reconciliation or other mechanism. Well, I think you should prepare for it. Again, I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it. You're going to hear a lot of happy talk from senators about how we need to spend more money on defense.” (04:14–04:39)

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