it authorizes funding for our continued campaign to obliterate have oneyou know, we won in iraq,have but they have spread to other areas -- other areas and we are getting them when they spread. we have had more success with isis in the last eight months than in the entire previous administration had during their entire term. it improves missile defense capabilities as we continue our campaign to create maximum pressure on the vile dictatorship in north korea. we are working very diligently on that. building our forces, we will see how it all turns out. very bad situation that should have been handled longer go by other administrations. it allows for the purchase of new joint strike fighter aircraft and paves the way for beautiful new virginia class submarines, the finest in the world. finally, the defense bill military defenses and our greatest weapons of all, its warriors. it increases the size of the american armed forces for the first time in seven years. it provides our military service members with their largest pay increase in eight years. now congress must finish the job bite