Troy Meink: “The resources, regardless of mandatory or discretionary…”

“What risk is there to long term health stability of these programs by this funding strategy in case we don't get a reconciliation bill? Well, Mr. Chairman, as we discussed, The resources, regardless of mandatory or discretionary, they're all a priority to execute the mission in the future. Both from a readiness and modernization that we just talked about. So any reduction on either side of the House would have either side, mandatory, discretionary, will have significant consequences.” (34:55–35:03)

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