With us mr. John roth performing the duties of the understand secretary of defense for comptroller and the joint staff director for forestructure, resources and assessment. The briefing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with a few opening comments from both gentlemen, then well open the floor to questions. With that. Thank you eric. Good morning or good afternoon almost here. Good to see you all. I am not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise you. Its there for reference in case i have to go to it. So, again, we will walk through our presentation of the budget here. Between the general and myself, well try to answer your questions as best we can. As you know, today the president , president trump, sent to congress his proposed fy 2018 budget request. What we will do here this afternoon is outline the request for the Defense Department. Go to the first slide, please. The message is really, on the first slide, is the intent is that fy 18 bud
With us mr. John roth performing the duties of the understand secretary of defense for comptroller and the joint staff director for forestructure, resources and assessment. The briefing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with a few opening comments from both gentlemen, then well open the floor to questions. With that. Thank you eric. Good morning or good afternoon almost here. Good to see you all. I am not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise you. Its there for reference in case i have to go to it. So, again, we will walk through our presentation of the budget here. Between the general and myself, well try to answer your questions as best we can. As you know, today the president , president trump, sent to congress his proposed fy 2018 budget request. What we will do here this afternoon is outline the request for the Defense Department. Go to the first slide, please. The message is really, on the first slide, is the intent is that fy 18 bud
Up next, the chiefs of the army, air force, navy and marine corps testify on their budgets and the impact of repeated continuing resolutions in place of more longterm appropriations for the military branches. Held by the House Armed Services committee, this is about two hours, forty five minutes. [ banging gavel ] the committee will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act, plus a series of continuing resolutions, coupled with a pace of required deployment have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize, requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty of responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs, with both
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