Scott DesJarlais believes in maintaining a strong national defense, protecting American interests both home and abroad, and providing the necessary resources to our men and women who have volunteered to serve.
Maintain a strong national defense and provide necessary resources to service members.
Occurrences
We must replace Minuteman with Sentinel, and we must ensure that program delivers a solution that takes care of our operators and maintainers.
Evidence
Roll Call 159 shows DesJarlais voting Aye on H. Res. 1275, the rule that made in order consideration of H.R. 8469, the military construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations bill for fiscal year 2027.
The committee held a Navy FY27 budget hearing with the Acting Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, indicating active congressional work on defense resources in DesJarlais's current term.
Assessments
The cited evidence shows DesJarlais participating in current-term congressional defense oversight and supporting floor consideration of military construction and veterans-related appropriations. Those actions materially indicate effort toward maintaining defense resources, but they do not establish that new defense resources were enacted or that the promised outcome was fully delivered. Because he remains in federal office and the referenced FY2027 process is still ongoing, the outcome is best treated as unresolved rather than never or delivered.