This is CBS, Eye on the World.

I'm John Batchel.

I welcome my colleague Bradley Bowman, Senior Director of the Center on Military and Political

Power, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, along with his very good colleague, Ryan

Broaps, writing a senior research analyst, look at the defense budget in Congress.

We were speaking of the power of Congress.

That's the Article 1 of the Constitution.

However, these days, all of the energy and attention is at the White House.

That's Article 2.

So what about Article 1?

Brad, a very good evening to you during the campaign, and you mentioned it again in the beginning

of your recommendations to Congress about the defense budget, the number $1 trillion,

which gets my attention when they use the T word, which is for the budget? Is it still in train one trillion, or have they moved away from that

number? Good evening to you. Good evening to you, John. It's a real pleasure to join you again.

You know, let me start by complimenting this administration by saying, you know,

piece to strength. If you have to pick a slogan for your and defense policy, that's a pretty darn good one that has a Ronald Reagan DNA. And it's informed by history and human nature, I would say, you know, you go back to the Roman saying, if you want peace, prepare for war. And strategists understand that the essence of strategy is the coordination of ends and means.

So if you're only talking ends or objectives and you're not talking means, you're not really doing strategy.

And so what we're saying in this piece is good job Trump administration and focusing on peace of strength,

understanding that we want America to have a military capability that is unchallenged and unparalleled in the world to

keep our citizens safe and make aggressors think twice before they initiate new aggression.

The problem is that the skinny budget or the initial budget request of the Trump administration does not live up to that slogan,

and it does not live up to the administration's previous promises

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