President bidens 2024 budget request before a Senate Appropriations committee. They outlined their focus on people, readiness and modernization and discussed investments with joint forces in the indo pacific region. Testified on president bidens 2024 budget request before a Senate Appropriations committee. They outlined focused on people, readiness, and modernization. 300 million below last years but 11 billion more than the year before that. Worldwide challenges threads constantly evolving. The armies the future is to transfer the army into the army of 2030. This transformation includes organizational forces in the development of equipment and new concepts to defeat our adversaries. We can best help the army on its path through the timely enactment of the defense appropriations bill for fy 24. Appropriations provide to allow the army to execute and operate execute plans appropriately. Let me put it this way. In order for the army to be all it can be, we Congress Must do our jobs. I lo
Senator sessions look, its not going to be an in person entity. Proper background check. You need to be defending the peoples public safety. If you need more money to do this, you need to ask for it. If you want to rubber stamp the process, keep doing the way youre doing it. Ms. Saldana, section 1373 of title 8 of the u. S. Code provides among other things quote, a federal state, or local Government Entity or official may not prohibit or in any way restrict any Government Entity or official from sending to or receiving from i. C. E. Information regarding a citizenship or immigration status lawful or unlawful of any individual. Close quote. Dont you think that resolutions by City Councils or state governments or sheriffs in certain jurisdictions, directing their officers not to honor detainers or otherwise notify i. C. E. That they have arrested someone thats unlawfully in the country could violate or would violate section 1373 . Secretary saldana well, all of that is part of litigation
Target them. We can come up with objective way to define what a sanctuary is. And i think it should be a jurisdiction that does not comply with all detainers all of the time for all types of people who are removable whether theyve committed serious crimes or not. And i do think that the policies of the Obama Administration in enabling sanctuary jurisdictions and greatly restricting what i. C. E. Agents can do despite the plain language of the law also ought to be given attention through legislation through congress. We know that the administration is not going to make an effort. Theyve said as much. Theyre not going to address this on their own. Congress needs to reassert its Constitutional Authority over these matters. Chief during your testimony you commented that resources are finite. Its difficult for the Police Departments to balance the different needs. And the federal Immigration Laws on some level are a distraction perhaps in balancing all of the different demands on your polic
Let me just add one clarifying d before we take the first volunteer on these questions. And, again, framing the discussion today, as youre aware, weve got an active secretary, assistant secretary. Weve got a former comptroller, and we have other people who are brainstorming. And so youre hearing different ideas in different veins, and i just want to underscore that point. I think that was something that alice was driving at earlier, and ill make start with her if you wish to begin with either of those questions. Well, let me certainly, one of the problems is theres political opposition to anything that looks like a benefit reduction to anyone, and that applies to military, to military retirees, to Medicare Beneficiaries, and its one of the reasons i think for looking at these changes across the whole system at the same time. And its certainly possible that medicare, which is at the moment having some success in holding down costs as is the military Health System can survive over the lo
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