June 15, 2017 Mattis, Dunford Describe Need for Increased, Stable DoD Budgets Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford defended the president’s fiscal year 2018 defense budget request on Capitol Hill during a hearing of the House Appropriations Defense subcommittee.
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.