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Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.

At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.

The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced.

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.

I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.