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June 13, 2017
Mattis Says DoD Needs Years to Correct Effects of Sequestration

Even if Congress acts now to rid the Defense Department of looming sequestration spending cuts, it will take years of stable and higher budgets for DoD to dig out of the readiness hole, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
June 12, 2017
Mattis Asks Congress for Stable Budgets, End to Sequestration

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis launched a full-throated attack on looming across-the-board spending cuts during a budget hearing on Capitol Hill, saying "no enemy in the field has done more to harm the combat readiness of our military than sequestration."
May 16, 2017
Mattis welcomes new SecAF home

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis ceremoniously swore in Heather Wilson as the 24th Secretary of the Air Force at the Pentagon May 16, 2017.
March 10, 2017
Mattis: Social Media Misconduct by DoD Personnel Won’t be Tolerated

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the purported actions of civilian and military personnel on social media websites represent egregious violations of the fundamental values that are upheld at the Department of Defense.
Feb. 27, 2017
Pentagon Spokesman Discusses ISIS Preliminary Plan, Budget Amendment

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will present a preliminary version of the Pentagon’s new interagency plan to rapidly defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria during a meeting of the White House Principals Committee.
Feb. 14, 2017
Mattis: U.S. Remains Committed to NATO as Alliance Transforms

The United States remains committed to NATO, history’s most successful military alliance, as it transforms to match the changing character of war, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters traveling with him to a NATO defense ministers conference in Brussels.
Jan. 11, 2017
James bids farewell as SecAF

The men and women of the Air Force bid farewell to the 23rd Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James during a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Jan. 11.
Nov. 29, 2016
Carter Sends Congress Memo Calling for Quick Budget Action

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said that in a memo sent to Congress, Defense Secretary Ash Carter urged legislators to pass the Defense Department’s budget as quickly as possible and to avoid extending the continuing resolution.
Nov. 17, 2016
Carter Meets Air Force Instructors in Texas, Discusses Future Force

Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas, where he spoke about “building the Force of the Future.”
Nov. 12, 2016
4 Killed in Bagram Airfield Explosion

Defense Secretary Ash Carter expressed sincere condolences to the families of four Americans killed at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan in an apparent suicide bombing, and reassured the loved ones of those injured that they are getting the best possible care.

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