Essentially that the president of the United States has said, you republicans care about defense. Youre not getting any more money for defence unless i get more money for nondefense. Thats a big conflict. So the process we move forward met the Defense Departments request and president s request for defense but has not met nondefense increases, all of which on defense and nondefense are barred. Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 captioning performed by vitac really tried to work with us more than anyone else has. 1961, 51 of the budget. Now it is 15 . That is a problem. It is the lowest percentage since world war ii, but that is not the problem we are addressing today. What we are talking about is the tooth and the tail. Hagel suckedtary to shrink the headquarters and major combat command staff. Secretary carter indicated a target 20 reduction of the staff during his time as to be secretary and in august of this year, the Deputy Defense costtary ward said reductions