Defense Secretary Jim Mattis provides testimony on the Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Budget Request from the Department of Defense to members of the Senate Committee on Armed Services during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington D.C., June 12, 2017. (Photo Credit: DoD photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith)
Defense News: Mattis 'very comfortable' with House, Senate defense bills
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said he is “very comfortable” with the priorities forming the backbones of both the House and Senate defense bills, despite some outstanding issues.
“I’m confident, based on the questions I went through with both the House and the Senate, and with Republicans and Democrats in both houses, that they all recognize we need to rebuild the military,” Mattis told reporters Friday.
“How we parse that out, I’ll just say the theme is consistent. I did not confront adversarial challenges that we need to downsize the military’s budget or we don’t have gaps in our readiness. We’re working all those details out,” the secretary continued. “I’m sure there are some areas of disagreement, but there are enormous areas of agreement.”
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