thank you, ryan and rebecca. as we rebuild america s strength and confidence at home, we are also restoring our strength and standing abroad. around the world, we face rogue regimes, terrorist groups, and rivals like china and russia that challenge our interests, our economy, and our values. in confronting these horrible dangers, we know that weakness is the surest path to conflict. and unmatched power is the surest means to our true and great defense. for this reason, i am asking congress to end the dangerous defense sequester and fully fund our great military.
we recognize the weakness is the surest path to conflict. in bible power is certain means of defense our strategy breaks from the damaging defense sequester. we will get rid of that. [applause] it calls for a total modernization of our military. in reversing previous decisions to shrink our armed forces, even as threats to national security grew, it calls for streamlining acquisition, eliminating bloated bureaucracy and massively building up our military, which is the side benefit of creating millions and millions of jobs.
civil-sufficiency. . the third pillar is to reserve peace through strength. [ applause ] we recognize that weakness is the surest path to conflict and unrivalled power is the most certain means of defense. for this reason, our strategy breaks from the damaging defense sequester. we re going to get rid of that. [ applause ] it calls for a total modernization of our military and reversing previous decisions to shrink our armed forces, even as threats to national security grew. it calls for streamlining acquisition, eliminating bloated bureaucracy and massively building up our military which
[ applause ] we recognize that weakness is the surest path to conflict and unrivalled power is the most certain means of defense. for this reason our strategy breaks from the damaging defense sequester. we re going to get rid of that. [ applause ] it calls for a total modernization of our military and reversing previous decisions to shrink our armed forces even as threats to national security grew. it calls for stream lining accusation, eliminating bloated bureaucracy and massively building up our military, which has the fundamental side benefit of creating millions and millions of jobs.
fighter aircraft and pave the way for new beautiful virginia class submarines, the finest in the world. finally, the defense bill authorizes investments in our military s greatest weapon of all, it s warriors. the nda increases the size of the american armed forces for the first time in seven years. it provides our military members with the largest pay increase in eight years. now congress must finish the job by eliminating the defense sequester and passing a clean appropriations bill. i think that is going to happen. we need our military. it s got to be perfecto. a grave global threats, i urge has to stop their shutdown threats and city clean funding in a clean funding bill to my desk that fully funds