'Just Own Up To It': Matt Gaetz Grills Sec. Lloyd Austin On The F-35 Program

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At a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) questioned Sec. Lloyd Austin on the F-35 program.
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@gilesbowman1189 24 дня назад

Austin should have been fired years ago.......

@user-vr8uo3oj2h 24 дня назад

Yes

@marshallvanstee4777 24 дня назад

And you are basing that on exactly what General? You are a General right? No one else would have the insight to know whether a military commander should be fired, so, General, what is your basis?

@edda682 24 дня назад

@@marshallvanstee4777 You should never start a sentence with and.

@Decoy0527 24 дня назад

"What is your basis for firing Austin" ? Here's just two. #1 the exit debacle from Afghanistan. # 2 the complete eff up of underestimating the strength of the Russian military. Lets keep going. # 3 repeatedly lying to his superiors and staff about a temporary disabling medical condition. # 4, he is just a conduit to funnel money from the Department of Defense to his former MIC employer. I'll stop at 5 by mentioning his support for genocide in Gaza.

@princez413 24 дня назад

He can't be fired for the same reason he was hired. The color of his skin.

@yeost187 24 дня назад

Matt Gaetz, should ask the real question: How many representatives, and senators, own stock in Lockheed Martin?

@douglemay7989 24 дня назад

Matt has a "minor" problem. McCarthy is gunning for him.

@garlandlohr2219 24 дня назад

Or how much kickback do the representatives receive from Lockheed for approving this sham. Congress does not run for office to serve the American people,they run to get kickbacks from corporations..

@TtowneMs1013 21 день назад

@@douglemay7989 Isn't McCarthy retiring at the end of his term?

@douglemay7989 21 день назад

@@TtowneMs1013 He still has power.

@daisyrosario3438 24 дня назад

These people never know anything!😡

@karonhollingsworth2049 24 дня назад

They choose not to know anything.... It's a Democrat thing😊

@user-wr8fg4lh5v 24 дня назад

Vote trump

@michaelmcfeely6588 24 дня назад

Conclusion: A dollar paid in taxes is a dollar down the drain.

@Erogyerb52 24 дня назад

No, a dollar paid and ten dollars borrowed from your off-spring.

@inktray4913 24 дня назад

@@Erogyerb52 and climbing

@furball5543 24 дня назад

29 percent! maybe we can ask ukraine for some money back

@FunnyBunny-pd5xx 24 дня назад

I wish you well with that ! NO one admired President Zelenskyy, as I did immediately after 24 February 2022. It is shameful he has become a professional beggar with a bath-sized begging bowl.

@Alex-spb 24 дня назад

How? Soon there won't be a country like this left on the world map.

@matthewhamm1359 24 дня назад

To late Biden already deposited his 10% and the little troll Zelenskyy has spent it all on mansions for his family

@monkofkrayak6235 24 дня назад

Keep dreaming. Do you know how hard it is to get money from a wej?

@alo8532 24 дня назад

Typical government waste of taxpayers money. And no one does anything

@YalldumbASF 24 дня назад

F-35 isn’t a paperweight, it’s an airplane statue. Austin is the paperweight of the Biden Administration.

@matthewhamm1359 24 дня назад

At least they are cool to look at

@weldrider1 24 дня назад

Probably should do a little research on the F-35...Living next to NAS Point Mugu, the Pilots there say different..

@tamiannhowell6598 24 дня назад

Nice job Matt Gaetz Thank you

@joelsys_75 24 дня назад

Austin is but another DEI fool. He was a 4 star general that couldn't lead a Boy Scout troop.

@chrisbrowne4669 24 дня назад

I know many Boy Scouts more capable and honest than Austin. A troop of them would strip Austin of any authority on the first outing.

@3dPrintingMillennial 24 дня назад

This is the most assisine comment I've ever read.

@chrisbrowne4669 24 дня назад

@@3dPrintingMillennial Said by a child.

@EdwardMugits-Video-Marketing 24 дня назад

He was kicked out of the boy scouts for eating a brownie

@Alikhan-tl8om 24 дня назад

The guy is a liar like his boss lying Joe

@FunnyBunny-pd5xx 24 дня назад

Be was only given the position because he was a friend of Beau B during the war.

@FunnyBunny-pd5xx 24 дня назад

My reply comment in agreement with you has been deleted by Mr Google's army of AI.

@The00Dude 24 дня назад

People who lie often call others liars and then go out and vote for a lair! HUM.

@chadbroussard1791 24 дня назад

The reasons for distrusting this government just keeps piling up… can I please get one reason to trust them? Please?

@Drahcir_XIII 24 дня назад

Trusting them was never supposed to be the plan. We allowed our government to expand too much, and now we are nearly powerless beneath them.

@Drahcir_XIII 24 дня назад

YT deleted my comment, so I'll try again. Trusting the government was never the idea. Measures of control were put in place (e.g. the Constitution) to protect our power. We have not appropriately enforced such measures, and we are losing our power because of it.

@Carrierdlr1 24 дня назад

We need more congressmen to be on the ball like the spectacular Matt Gaetz!!!

@theresawilliamson433 24 дня назад

Wasting money.

@viettung1255 24 дня назад

That's Obama, Joe Biden administration

@r2com641 21 день назад

@@viettung1255 no dumbo. It doesn’t matter what the administration is, they all are part of same club

@reneevoydatch3713 24 дня назад

If its the best why only 29% is functional 🤔🧐🤭🤯

@Carrierdlr1 24 дня назад

This is another example of hiring the liberal way instead of the best man for the job!!

@xusmico187 24 дня назад

the look of disdain on the SECDEF...

@jamesdunn8893 24 дня назад

All talk no action

@jerrywagner4690 24 дня назад

This is what you get... when the really stupid take over.

@garlandlohr2219 24 дня назад

This is a token general who hasn’t the ability to run a pay toilet.

@FJB8646 24 дня назад

Lloyd Austin is a meat puppet.

@garynorred4643 24 дня назад

Um, no he isn't. That was a clown comment. The Meat Puppets are an awesome band though!

@FJB8646 22 дня назад

@@garynorred4643 yes he is.

@marcsappington419 24 дня назад

Utter incompetence!! Court Martial these Traitors in the Pentagon

@mikepatrick8017 24 дня назад

I know one thing for sure; NEVER EVER GET RID OF THE A-10 WARTHOG!! NUFF SAID!!

@bocajrs7628 4 дня назад

You are right. I was in the Army many years. Always wanted A-10 when air support was needed.

@mikepatrick8017 3 дня назад

@@bocajrs7628 THANK YOU!!

@ninataylor4172 24 дня назад

He's a patsy'

@levialston518 24 дня назад

Well then why is only 29 percent is operational

@narcolepticchihuahuaproduc1801 24 дня назад

Gaetz needs to get grilled on the F-17 scandal.

@martypickens6760 24 дня назад

Any commy sitting in a high place within our government.

@trudoug 24 дня назад

This sec doesn't give 2 hoots about his position.

@obisanchez5286 23 дня назад

Is it Loyd Austin that is going to fix the serious mess with F35 project?

@user-rj5fh8hm2z 24 дня назад

Thank you Congressman

@user-oh2yl3gz7s 24 дня назад

No common sense with these Democrats

@josemercado4702 24 дня назад

Wasn't the F-35 program funded thru the Bush Administration?

@ShaighJosephson 24 дня назад

It's deliberate to cover up their agenda for comm.u.nist rule... 💥

@jaybee9269 24 дня назад

F-35 is pretty righteous and costs about $80 million a copy.

@michellehenderson3132 24 дня назад

I have a invested interest in what is happening with Military Aerospace I worked for Lockheed Sanders in New Hampshire. As a printed circuit board designer and schematic drafter to. Working on the F-22, F-16 ect. Atircum, plus the X-33 space shuttle, HSSU Also with Hamilton Sunstrand on the Joint Fighter Plane in Windsor Locks Connecticut. They merged with Goodrich Technologies and GT merged with United Technologies. This issue is extremely important for the Military workers that defend our country. And for the Leader not doing or knowing what is job title is makes me want to BARF

@KaligarPrimus 24 дня назад

As a vet. that used to work on aircraft 29% is a very low percentage for a jet inventory. Even if the percentage were just over 50% that would be low for an aircraft such as the F-35. Lockheed Martian needs to be held accountable for the increasing cost an unreliability of these aircraft.

@desi4227 24 дня назад

🤣 No one in real life can run their books like this! What is going on🤔

@johnnybumpous9108 24 дня назад

and the wheels go round..😮

@Carrierdlr1 24 дня назад

FJB and Jill for elder abuse!!

@Zindo.Majesty.HisMajesty 24 дня назад

F-35 has been in the pipeline for decades.

@MediaLieDetector 24 дня назад

Boy got owned! 😂😂😂

@princez413 24 дня назад

The Federal Government Has Got To Go!

@ronniesearcy6602 24 дня назад

LOYD AUSTIN SHOULD STEP DOWN ‼️ UNDER QUALIFIED AND NOT DOING HIS JOB‼️

@obisanchez5286 23 дня назад

Was F35 built during the Biden administration, and is Loyd Austin in charge? Is it Loyd Austin that is supposed to make sure that a flawed project like F35 is operational?

@racebannon8569 24 дня назад

God help us

@user-iz2dt8uo1i 24 дня назад

He will be jailed this time if he said truth to the American people.

@roblong9728 24 дня назад

well weasel boy is correct, the cost is astronomical and only gets more costly as time goes on. not really how it's supposed to work but that's corporate greed for you.

@TesserId 24 дня назад

This is isn't a real analysis of the state of the program. It's point scoring. It's political theater. I'm going to have to look elsewhere for a real analysis. But, gee, thanks for tipping me off to the ever ongoing challenges posed by the military industrial complex~~as if we didn't already know about that!

@user-qp6nv9hm9t 24 дня назад

Matt and MTG 🤯

@inktray4913 24 дня назад

Why has he not been charged as AWOL ?

@user-kq4hf8se5b 24 дня назад

Good thing we have the F22.

@user-wr8fg4lh5v 24 дня назад

It's getting fazed out

@Lacey_Face 24 дня назад

We NEVER sold our F22 to anyone, but after Biden got in, somehow China has our F22 technology. How'd they get it? Probably from the classified and top secret documents Biden has been stealing since he was a Senator and storing them recklessly where China could access them. Biden did admit on live TV when Modi visited, "I sold a lot of State Secrets and other things over he years". Biden is a Traitor.

@RobTheDoodler 24 дня назад

@@user-wr8fg4lh5vWhich is pretty strange if you ask me. We’ve had fighter aircraft in service much longer than the F-22.

@frankaxiak1959 24 дня назад

Good thing the Navy has F/A-18 Super Hornets!

@steveegbert7429 24 дня назад

@@frankaxiak1959 And don't forger the USAF F-16's and F-15"s, they still work pretty well and cheaper. It's funny that the Israeli's have the F-35 running pretty well with their own avionics.

@TonyTitleGuy 24 дня назад

Awesome... Can you imagine the amount of bribes that they must get from that kind of position?

@weldrider1 24 дня назад

Sorry Mr. Gaetz but That`s NOT what the Pilots of the F-18 Super Hornets in the Blue Angels are saying....

@calripson 24 дня назад

That's 29 percent in peacetime. Imagine the availability rate in wartime conditions.

@user-tt6il2up4o 24 дня назад

Wait till they find out they are no good in combat against an enemy who can fight back.

@tt600pch 24 дня назад

Austin should drive a car with a 29% readiness rating. Wait he may drive an EV so...

@sharonsimcox969 24 дня назад

Term limits 🙏☮️

@BooBooSpider67 24 дня назад

No general will take that kind of disrespect.

@joseescobedo7080 24 дня назад

He's getting a cut.

@VaporheadATC 24 дня назад

There are a number of aircraft in our fleet that have this sam FMC rate, or very close too it. The B-1 bomber comes to mind.

@Tank4Life 24 дня назад

That doesn't make it right.

@marshallvanstee4777 24 дня назад

@@Tank4Life Perhaps you have the solution to building supremely sophisticated war machines that don't develop unforeseen problems and have to be redesigned? The Pentagon and the military aircraft designers would welcome any advice you could supply. Have you offered them your solutions?

@MediaLieDetector 24 дня назад

New Recruits are also about 70% defective… Just saying.

@stonwall26 24 дня назад

Wtf have they been buying with 800 billion dollar budget!!

@charlesivey100 24 дня назад

We probably own a few paperweights, but the military war machine and members of congress got several huge increments in their personal portfolios and bank accounts.

@davidlindsey4237 24 дня назад

they wasted tax dollar at a LEVEL THAT WARRANTS PRISON SENTENCES

@inktray4913 24 дня назад

How can anyone re-elect these people that are spending at an UNSUSTAINABLE RATE !! All the while, none is helping Americans !!!

@lisahill182 24 дня назад

The gaslighting is insane!!

@michaellewis5624 24 дня назад

Stop payment!!

@paulparoma 23 дня назад

So? Is anything going to change after that? Not a chance.

@rawhide154 24 дня назад

My aunt has one.

@danjohnston9037 24 дня назад

Translation; We Have A Deep Bench

@chuckfarley567 24 дня назад

100M a clip.....they should fly themselves !!!!

@Because223 24 дня назад

Austin needs to be fired immediately and replaced

@_DB.COOPER 24 дня назад

DEI

@yesbutactuallyno8305 24 дня назад

Sounds like Norway should've bought JAAS Gripens Eurofighter 2000 instead of this scam

@jhngfdsdfgkjnbv 24 дня назад

epic corruption

@RamonaRobinson-sk9yk 24 дня назад

The secretary don't care he's getting paid

@ColonelJohnmatrix1000 19 дней назад

It’s not a failure.

@debz3503 24 дня назад

They send and leave our best to other countries?

@johns9969 23 дня назад

Lot of VERY expensive kit is getting blown up by weapons that cost 1/100th. Maintenance cost are off the charts. There needs some hard audits.

@Billy420-69 24 дня назад

Bold move asking a DEI hire to accept accountability for literally anything.

@scottcowell9645 24 дня назад

That would be like paying a contractor one million dollars to build you a house at turn key and when you go to move into your house it costs you two million! Enough said you all have a great weekend ahead.

@mattvance485 24 дня назад

But they look neat at an airshow.

@marcbutler8896 24 дня назад

2 years old! ! !

@xusmico187 24 дня назад

if that is the best we have we are in trouble

@Decoy0527 24 дня назад

Take the "if" away. We are in trouble. This guy is in charge of a grotesquely high $880 BILLION dollars per year DoD budget. But he's no worse than the last 5 who proceeded him.

@Zindo.Majesty.HisMajesty 24 дня назад

State of the art stuff will have gremlins.

@juneabfalter7361 24 дня назад

D e I at its filet's go brandon😢😢😢

@matthewhamm1359 24 дня назад

I don’t care where you come from, 29% is below failing.

@bodezzy212 24 дня назад

But let’s send money to other countries! Hurry

@kamenriderovant9676 24 дня назад

*cough*Military industrial complex*cough*

@marshallvanstee4777 24 дня назад

Now Matt Gaetze is more savvy about military readiness than the Secretary of Defense? Maybe we should have Marjory Taylor Greene take over. She would be much more qualified than Austin, right? Where does this guy get his audacity? The entire Freedom Caucus has turned into the epic joke.

@ronquixote3767 24 дня назад

Not allowed to call a spade a spade

@markhardy8495 24 дня назад

Austin does not know that it is ok to be terrible at your job if you know it and do the right things and quit......he is taking his pay and hurting his employer which in this case is the country.and that is wrong.

@rb89509 24 дня назад

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower.

@ozzymd1 23 дня назад

These people have the movie - Other people's money downloaded on their phones

@user-jk3mi2ee9z 24 дня назад

How many have we gave away or left behind somewhere of military equipment that did work

@DouglasCMossop 24 дня назад

were was he 4 years ago with that kind of spending trong 2 go 4 points is BS

@Jerry_Fried 24 дня назад

It seems like these cabinet members view the boondoggles as “their” boondoggles and they become defensive of them when they’re pointed out, instead of having the proper perspective, which is to be defensive, not of the boondoggle, but of the American people, who have to bear the cost but receive no benefit.

@user-js4cl3ww9o 24 дня назад

I really like Matt

@mchavez1138 24 дня назад

29% operational is the best in the inventory?

@user-kc4uw8br2q 24 дня назад

Go Matt Gaetz🇺🇸💯

@MrRacket991 24 дня назад

Matt has a very "Kennedy" look. Maybe RFK Jr. should make him vice-president.

@johnkellet9245 24 дня назад

Would you want to be in the military now?

@chloehood6355 24 дня назад

Unbelievable, shocking, and he knows it. He is taking a salary under false pretences. (Stealing) R

@genarasaritacotrera7011 2 дня назад

Libing correo mar lago fron nulo

@richardherring8220 24 дня назад

Austin never answered the question of how many F-35' the USAF owns !!

@purethinking269 24 дня назад

This f35 is a maintenance project. Drones are the future, cheap or expensive drones but the corporations are not going to build something that works for less.