2020, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Now defense secretary mark esper and joint chiefs of chair general mark milley days after the u. S. And taliban signed a withdrawal from afghanistan. Impact o addressed the of the coronavirus on the military. This is just over 20 minutes. Secretary esper ok. Good morning, everyone. As you know we have a busy week here at the pentagon. D. O. D. Leadership will be testifying in 20 hearings before congress in the coming days as continue to brief the hill on the departments f. Y. 2021 budget request. As you know, i was in afghanistan on saturday with president ghani and nato secretary stoltenberg where we announced a joint declaration on bringing peace to afghanistan which reaffirms United Statess partnership with the government of afghanistan. This was an important first step toward a political solution to end the war in afghanistan. As i reiterated to our afghan partners, this is a conditionsbased agreement. A conditio
Cspans q a. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Created by cable in 1979 and brought to you today by your television provider. Defense secretary mark eer and mark milley were on capitol hill to testify for the 2020 request for the pentagon. They were also asked about military moderation efforts and defense funds for border wall construction. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony in the department of defense fiscal year 2021 budget request and our witnesses we thank them for our service and both dr. Marques per and general mark. We have a pair of marks this morning. This committees top priority is ensuring the effectiveness adjacent to a National Defense strategy thats our vote we had heard in hearing for a long period of time now, about three years. Unfortunately, the last administration we asked our military to do more with less. That got us in trouble between 2012 and 2017, we boost 150 billion to sequestration. Our Defense Budget in the redness of our forces were dev
Leadership will be testifying before congress in the coming days as we continue to brief thehill on the departments fy2021 budget request. I was in afghanistan with president ghani and nato secretary stoltenberg where we announced a joint declaration on bringing peace to afghanistan which reaffirms United Statess partnership with the government of afghanistan. This was an important first step toward a political solution to end the war in afghanistan. As i reiterated to our afghan partners, this is a conditionsbased agreement. A conditionsbased agreement. Were watching the talibans actions closely to assess whether they are upholding their commitments. I also had the opportunity to address our troops and Coalition Forces while i was in kabul and speak with m. S. O. , v. S. O. Groups while back to the United States. We must not forget this agreement was enabled by the tremendous sacrifices our service men and women have made over the past 18plus years. They continue to do great work, sup
D. O. D. Will be testifying before 20 hearings before congress in the coming days as we continue to brief the hill on the departments f. Y. 2021 budget request. As you know, i was in afghanistan on saturday with president ghani and nato secretary stoltenberg where we announced a joint declaration on bringing peace to afghanistan which reaffirms United Statess partnership with the government of afghanistan. This was an important first step toward a political solution to end the war in afghanistan. As i reiterated to our afghan partners, this is a conditionsbased agreement. A conditionsbased agreement. Were watching the talibans actions closely to assess whether they are upholding their commitments. I also had the opportunity to address our troops and Coalition Forces while i was in kabul and speak with m. S. O. , v. S. O. Groups while back to the United States. We must not forget this agreement was part of the tremendous sacrifices our service men and women have made over the past 18plu
Thanking them for their service to our country. Both have served our country in various capacities for a long time. Not an easy thing to do. I respect and appreciate that work. I look forward to continuing to work with you. The good news i want to start with is unlike last year we have a budget agreement. And last year we spent a lot of time talking about how difficult it is to run anything in the government but certainly the department of defense without Appropriations Bills in a timely manner. Now, last year we were off by i dont know 3. 5 months, Something Like that, but thats better than drifting into the next year. We did get Appropriations Bills and an authorizing bill done by december of last year which gives some predictability to the department. I think thats important. This year we hope to come a little bit closer to october 1st. Certainly on the authorizing bill, but also in the appropriations bill. Most importantly, we have a budget number. And hopefully we can get that pre