mr. kelley raised. i am also very concerned that we are going to be so late in the fiscal year with a final appropriation and the needs are so great that there's going to be inevitable problems as a result. i'm thinking about the audit. you're going to find things and there may not be enough time to fix the things you find by the time the money is -- so i think my staff has reached out to yours to work together to see about some greater flexibility in spending money after the end of the fiscal year. i think about our maintenance problems. they're enormous. and we don't want to waste money but we also have got to get our ships and planes fixed. >> absolutely. >> so i think this is an area -- and there's a lot of concern in congress about accountability for the money. i understand that, but i think this is an area where a number of us in congress working with you in the department can have a better -- especially this year, because we are going to be so late. so i just want to mention that because y'all we

mr. kelley, the chief of staff. they keep telling us, the general is there. well, mr. general, speak up. speak up for the men and women of the armed forces. of different colors and different races and different nationalities who all bleed the same color. who have served under your command. and continue to serve and protect. and let me just say, joy, can you imagine any other job in which the ceo, right, could say something and isn't summarily fired from his job? can you think of any employee walking into any institution in america and saying these kind of deplorable things and not being fired? and that's why i insist that we need to continue to look at the embalance of this president. and the other day he put on a show for us. >> right. >> the other thing, joy, let's remember that these were democrats and republicans responding to him and saying, okay, we're going to give you -- this is what they said at the meeting, they said, we're going to give you money for your wall. i hope the american public understands that they offered the president $1.8 million for the wall t