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STATEMENT BY SENATOR McCAIN APPLAUDING SECRETARY GATES’ DECISION TO STOP WORK ON THE SECOND ENGINE FOR THE F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER
March 24, 2011
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today made the following statement regarding the stop work order issued by the Department of Defense that will halt work on the second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter:
“I strongly support the Secretary’s decision to issue a stop work order on the unnecessary and wasteful second engine for the Joint Strike Fighter. In these times of fiscal constraint, the Department of Defense cannot waste funding of any kind, much less the $1 million per day that is being spent on the second engine that Secretary Gates and our most senior Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps leaders say they don’t want and can’t afford.”
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