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Ensuring Military Pay00:09:50
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Mike Pence and Democrat Ram Emmanuel reflected on their unexpected friendship and found common ground on one of the world's most pressing issues, Israel and Hamas.
Yes, they had put things in motion to move some money from research, development, technology, and engineering accounts into payroll accounts to make sure that our members of the military are paid.
I'm also a co-sponsor of the Pay Our Troops Act, which would continue that.
Remember, though, Mimi, that this is a temporary measure.
If this shutdown continues to the end of the month, our troops could miss another paycheck.
So that's critical for us to make sure that we get government reopen.
Well, the dollars that are moved there, I think, cover that cost.
So I know that there's an accounting measure there to make sure that the full cost of those paychecks are covered by the research, development, technology, and engineering account.
You mentioned that you are in favor of the Pay Our Troops Act that would fund, essentially fund, congressionally fund payment for the U.S. military troops during the shutdown.
The leadership in Congress, as far as Health Speaker Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Thun, have said that they oppose this.
I know there are discussions about how to make that happen, and we've encouraged the administration to find ways to make sure we get those dollars into the necessary accounts to make sure we pay our reservists and our National Guard.
And as Vice Chair of the Armed Services Committee, Congressman Whitman, are you concerned about military readiness and the national security of this country?
They're always continuing to pursue efforts to take advantage of the United States in any way, shape, or form they can, both strategically and for that matter, economically.
So I want to make sure we're doing everything we can.
I just met last week with Secretary Hegseth.
I'm very confident that the Pentagon or service branch chiefs who I'll be meeting today with the Secretary of the Army, I am very confident that they're doing everything they can to make sure that our forces are ready, that they're trained and equipped and properly outfitted to assure that they stand ready if called upon to defend this nation.
And in your conversations with Secretary Hegseth, I wonder if his new Pentagon press policy came up in your conversations and if you're concerned at all about First Amendment issues and the ability of journalists to cover the Defense Department properly.
Listen, that issue did not come up and the Pentagon I know has their press policies.
I'm a firm believer in the First Amendment and everything that we do in our office assures that people have access and that we continue to freely communicate on the issues that are important to the people, not just to the First Congressional District of Virginia, but also to our nation.
I'm in favor of giving Ukraine the tools necessary to make sure that Russia seeks to end this conflict.
I think you have to make sure that Russia sees a continued threat in continuing the conflict.
I think anything that we can do to help Ukraine, and that includes in conjunction with our European neighbors, is the way that we need to go forward.
I want to see an end to this conflict.
I think the president deserves a tremendous amount of credit for his efforts in brokering this peace deal in the Middle East.
I think his next focus is on the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
The way that you bring Russia to the table is to make sure that they continue to see risk in their efforts in continuing this conflict.
We've seen, unfortunately, the conversations between Vladimir Putin and the President haven't resulted in the things necessary to bring this conflict to an end.
I think Putin has said things.
He's not followed up.
I think they continue to pursue these heightened conflict efforts in Ukraine.
The way you bring them to the table is to make sure that Russia sees that it's not to their advantage to continue this conflict.
They have to see that there's a cost to pay if they continue the conflict.
Providing these sorts of weapon systems to Ukraine, I think, provides that.
The President's been very clear with that.
President Zelensky, too, has been clear in saying that these are the things that are needed to really force this situation to a reasonable and fair peace agreement.
Finally, Congressman Whitman, I want to ask you about the deployment of National Guard troops to American cities.
This past week, President Trump and the Vice President, and Stephen Miller have all mentioned that the president could invoke the Insurrection Act and give himself full authority over those deployments.
Were you concerned, sir, that when the president said at that speech in Quantico to military leaders that the military could use American cities as training grounds?
Listen, we want to make sure that our troops are trained.
We have lots of training opportunities through national training centers, through our deployments, through the things that our military does in joint operations to train with other nations.
I think there are lots of training opportunities there.
I think our military does a great job in assuring that they're ready for any contingency that comes before them.
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First, with Pennsylvania Democratic Congresswoman Chrissy Houlihan on its impact on defense and national security.
Then with Nebraska Republican Congressman Mike Flood on the GOP strategy dealing with the shutdown.
And with Reuters correspondent David Shepardson on the shutdown's impact on air travel.
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As the government shutdown likely moves into a third week, on Wednesday, Senate lawmakers rejected for the ninth time a funding measure that would reopen the federal government.
The U.S. Senate failed to advance the House-Pass GOP proposal by a vote of 51 to 44.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said the shutdown could cost the federal government $15 billion in output daily.