assistance should go forward. although i heard of attempts to discuss the issue with the president i never received details other than a status update that the hole had not been lifted. other than the decision to release the funds on september 11 of this year my colleagues at the dod assistant enterprise worked tirelessly to ultimately obligate 86% of the funding by the end of the fiscal year, more than they originally estimated they would be able to. due to a provision in september s continuing resolution appropriating and amount equal to unoperating funds in fiscal twnt 19 we ultimately will be able to obligate all of the usai funds. given how critical these funds are for bolstering ukraine s security and deterring russia i appreciate this congressional action. that concludes my opening statement. but before answering your
but esper came up, classmates with pompeo, he came up through a traditional way, a senate staffer, he makes a big point of going out and visiting troops. i was with him in hurricane coverage, and we went to make sure fort bragg wasn t too compromised in all of this. it s important to note we don t think and know whether or not esper will be officially nominated nominated, it s clear they want to have a permanent defense secretary, not just for the orders you can carry out but the moral authority, you also hear that on the hill, there s concern that the president will keep someone in an acting position and what are among the more important things that esper is going to have to decide, what sort of dod funding is he going to use to build the president s wall, and we know the president likes having actings because they have to bend to his will. the question is where will he push back on the president if at
$55 billion a year in those cuts. a chart from the house armed services committee shows the sequester would bring d.o.d. funding as a percentage of the total budget well below 15%. look at this. this was the cold war buildup. right? this is where we d be looking at to where percentage of defense of where things would look if all of this gets through. now let s look at it in terms of the jobs, the congressional research. 907,000 jobs in 2013. 1.21 million jobs in 2014, civilian and military positions, contractors, this is suppliers and this is the way it would bear out. if you keep going, let s look at it across the board in the different states. the biggest one and the one that everybody in washington, d.c., would note is the state of virginia here. of course that s why their economy has been humming along. you would see ten states, the top ten states in terms of workers directly employed by the aerospace and defense industry. the most recent labor sta t