the materials and supplies budget. the department did request an additional 150 and our budget for uniforms to support on going hiring this was another challenge that we received in the mayor's proposed budget. and then with regard to miscellaneous supplies, safety equipment, and inmate institutional items that accounts for $.6 million. this represents about 20% of the total budget and that will pay for april, may and june. i want to say that we have spent 100% of the total original budget. if we compare to the revised budget, we have, which includes carry forwards from last year to this year, we have spent encumbered 100% of the total revised budget. >> keep going you are on a roll. >> b.l.a. number 2. the department, the b.l.a.s explanation summarized is that we have 535 of appropriations that have not been spent. actually, let me back up a little bit. the amount here is very small. if we can give out anything, we could give on this because of its size. our professional services budget includes 60 separate line items. some of these are under spent and some are over spent. taken as a whole the government has spent 100% a

the uniforms, the equipment, to nazi's,a phrase, the the experts out there that are looking for mistakes. given the limits of budgets and what is possible, it is an extraordinary re-creation of uniforms, appearance, etc. i think as we look at some of -- somegs, it might not of the things it might not convey accurately, only to itefly touch on the point, gives you a sense of -- it is taking an elite unit and portraying them as the everyman, doubly wrong.way these would have been multiple volunteers, these would have by theceptional soldiers standards of the u.s. army of the time. i would argue that although people might get upset with me that for the vast majority of our infantry, the u.s. infantry in the second world war, they were essentially civilians in your reform -- uniform. our level of training and cohesion by this stage were nowhere near where they needed to be. you can look forward and see the battle of the bulge will take place slightly less than six months later, and you will see a different u.s. army, because that has been bloodied across the board. but it is still nowhere near as proficient as the enemy

uniform. the president has yet to visit any service members in a war zone, but we did learn recently the working budgetade on veterans day is in the ballpark of $12 million. so vote vets.org. we'll throw it up on the screen. win says trump has spent 123 days golfing or one-fifth of his term at the cost of $72 million plus and still hasn't visited troops in a war zone. #notrumpparade. i want you -- i saw this. you tell me why the tweet. what's the significance? >> well, i think there's a lot of people inside the military including the senior military leadership who think the trump parade is ridiculous. we have issues on the korean peninsula. troops have died under the administration in somalia, yemen, iraq, afghanistan, libya, and so forth. all over the world. it's rather ironic that the president seems to think the military works for him, yet he has not gone out and does what any military director does by visiting the troops in the combat zones. >> two thoughts, one, he does think veterans -- he does stand with and meet veterans and perhaps the administration would say this military parade is to honor

uniform. this impacts the vast readiness we've seen over the past nine years continuing resolutions, sequestration and overall budget dysfunction. we do not want to be in a position, mr. speaker where the marines are forced to continue to use aging or outdated equipment, but they don't have the funds necessary to receive the training they require to undo this readiness crisis or they don't have the flexibility they need to respond to the fact that we have got an absolutely changing world "war of the worlds" fare. they need agility to do that and that requires funds if this body. as my colleagues have said, we made great progress. over the last year we've increased spending caps for fiscal year 2018 and 2019 and agreed to fund the department of defense at $700 billion for f.y. 2018. we've got to get that done now for fiscal year 2019. the readiness crisis was not created in a single year and it will take many years of effort to be able to address it. the bill that we considered in the house just a few weeks ago passed with over 300 bipartisan votes. i would hope, mr. speaker, that we can now today commit all of ourse

this budget makes necessary investments in our men and women in uniform providing 700 $16 billion for national security to ensure america remains a global force for peace and stability. contrary to the false narrative being put out by the media and those opposed to this budget we also put social security and medicare on a sustainable path for current and future generations committing to continue the work to curb the devastating opioid crisis and affirmed the need for responsible stewardship of federal resources. this is a budget mr. chairman that we can be proud to present to the american people. it's the right thing to do for today and it's the right thing to do for future generations and i urge my colleagues to support it and i yield back. >> the gentleman from pennsylvania mr. smucker. >> thank you chairman. i like to start by extending my appreciation for your leadership on this committee. i appreciate that and as my colleague and staff for the countless hours of work that went into developing this budget 18 months on this committee has underscored to me the state of our national debt crisis that we are in. i learned a new term. sovereign debt crisis, the idea that if we do not

uniform. mr. speaker, this resolution highlights the damage that we have seen to the readiness of the united states army over nine years of continuing resolutions, sequestration and budget disfunction. i echo the remarks, let's change that and make this a new start and this year will be the year that we don't hold military hostage. we have done it here in the house and they can do it in the senate. take the bill, take it up and pass it. all these other arguments and discussions are important for the future of the nation and important for our economy, but we should not force our men and women in uniform to have to wait and watch not knowing whether or not we will be able to pass the bills they need, the funding that they need to continue to keep us safe. we did our jobs for fiscal year 2018, although we were too slow but we have appropriated the money. let's do it this year on time with sufficient funding and with a level of accountability and also the -- making sure that our men and women in uniform know that those funds are coming to them. it's going to take it more than a single year to get us out of the crisis we face, but we made a good start. we should come togethe