SASC Dems skeptical of Golden Dome price, feasibility
“We need a lot more information before we make decisions to spend hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars," said Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.
“We need a lot more information before we make decisions to spend hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars," said Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.
"We're just going along and everybody — it's Kumbaya," Phelan said of the Navy's shipbuilding record. "It's almost as if you're waiting for a crisis to happen to ignite things. And I think in the business of warfare, that's a dangerous place to be."
Army officials assure lawmakers they're putting their Future Vertical Lift helos through the testing ringer, and that the aircraft they're meant to replace won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
Adm. Christopher Grady appears poised to become the military's second highest ranking officer.
"There really is former-general-officer fatigue, bordering on apprehension, on the Hill – on both sides of the aisle," a former Senate staffer says. "Trump really burned out a lot of folks."
Sen. Richard Blumenthal says he was "disappointed" by Barbara Barrett in "her responses to questions during her office visit and public testimony" during her confirmation hearing, "factors that have also contributed to my uncertainty about her ability to lead the Air Force."