Secretary matus and general dunford, i hope you will provide insight on what the strategy may be. What are we getting ready for . What are the priorities . That is not a hard question an important question if we are being asked, it is a Readiness Package the department is wont improve readiness and it is disconnected from strategy the administrations package proposes 18 billion in cuts to nondefense programs to offset military spending. The administration provided no detail on these cuts but we know what is on the shopping the block. There are extremely reckless cuts for agencies in the state department for next year. Jeopardizing the nations ability to deal with crises without resorting to arms. I wish the white house listens to then general jim matuss views on the state department. As commander of Us Central Command general matus stated if you dont fund the state department fully, there needs to be more ammunition ultimately. The harm will go beyond hurting National Security. Some of
Upcoming fiscal year budget. Senator probation subcommittee held this hearing wednesday. The subcommittee on defense appropriations of the United States senate will come to order. Today, we are receiving an update on military readiness and Defense Budget matters. We are pleased to welcome to the committee honorable james mattis secretary of defense, general Joseph Dunford junior chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The fiscal year 2017 department of defense appropriation agreement has been approved by the other bodies, house of representatives. I look forward to our completing work on that to bill in the coming weeks. We are bill well into the fiscal year and members of the subcommittee understand the importance of enacting defense appropriation legislation. As we complete our work on the 2017 defense appropriation agreement, we also recognize that our request for additional appropriations in fiscal year 2017 has been submitted to the congress. We welcome comments from our panel as w
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John thanks for coming out again, i want to see you coming every 6 months we need those discussions and ill say it like it is ill say a commission now, you know, weve got a lot of tough issues facing us and i couldnt be working with a better group of commissioners even with the seal rise weve got to show true leadership open which way to take our waterfront in the city you said even with transportation and things like that that requires coalitions thinking out of the box because i know a lot of times people say seattle and new york but San Francisco has its own flare and were not no other city like San Francisco weve got to find our greatestness were down that path egg people are moving here i walk everyday back and forth to work and see all the New Buildings in the city people are coming here were laying out the future weve got to determine what kind of future the average age is 27 years old the whole city is trovrmdz i know people like the things as we were people buy into the atmosp