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Kevin McCarthy is like everybody’s friend. And he’s almost too nice of a guy, i think there will be a huge recognition that Kevin McCarthy did the most raising money. Going district by district to actually win back the House. It's a matter of how big the margin is. You've got to be able to shut off some votes of people who will never vote for Kevin McCarthy. But you got to backfill that with people that will. – Jason Chaffetz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Our goal has always been to have multiple providers for crewed transportation to the space station, spaceX has been reliably flying two NASA crewed missions per year, and now we must backfill those flights to help safely meet the agency's long-term needs. – Phil McAllister	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Many of these partners are generously helping Ukraine, and we should help them backfill their inventories with more modern American capabilities that will improve NATO's interoperability and bolster deterrence. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In fact, we're talking with our Polish friends right now about what we might be able to do to backfill their needs if, in fact, they choose to provide these fighter jets to the Ukrainians. What can we do ? How can we help to make sure that they get something to backfill the planes that they're handing over to the Ukrainians ? We're in very active discussions with them about that. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are working with Poland as we speak to see if we can backfill anything that they provide to the Ukrainians, but we also want to see if we can be helpful in making sure that, whatever they provide to Ukrainians, something goes to them to make up for any gap in the security for Poland that might result. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 2 years ago
To my knowledge, it wasn't pre-consulted with us that they planned to give these planes to us, but as you know, we have been having consultations with them for a couple of days now about this request from the Ukrainians to receive their aircraft, and were they to donate them, whether we would be able to support backfill in their own security needs. – Victoria Nuland	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're doing our best to backfill and level the losses, though we're not at 100%. – Aaron Ockerman	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is possible... that our Chinese competitors become even more aggressive in markets and in countries where they can compete, they may feel the pressure to backfill the lost business volume in the rest of the world. – Tommi Uitto	Found on CNN 4 years ago
As 2022 approaches, A-10s will be replaced by F-35s only on a squadron-by-squadron basis as they come online, ensuring that all units have sufficient backfill and that we retain enough aircraft needed to fight today's conflicts. – Defense Secretary Ash Carter	Found on CNN 8 years ago

Kevin McCarthy is like everybody’s friend. And he’s almost too nice of a guy, i think there will be a huge recognition that Kevin McCarthy did the most raising money. Going district by district to actually win back the House. It's a matter of how big the margin is. You've got to be able to shut off some votes of people who will never vote for Kevin McCarthy. But you got to backfill that with people that will.

– Jason Chaffetz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Our goal has always been to have multiple providers for crewed transportation to the space station, spaceX has been reliably flying two NASA crewed missions per year, and now we must backfill those flights to help safely meet the agency's long-term needs.

– Phil McAllister

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Many of these partners are generously helping Ukraine, and we should help them backfill their inventories with more modern American capabilities that will improve NATO's interoperability and bolster deterrence.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In fact, we're talking with our Polish friends right now about what we might be able to do to backfill their needs if, in fact, they choose to provide these fighter jets to the Ukrainians. What can we do ? How can we help to make sure that they get something to backfill the planes that they're handing over to the Ukrainians ? We're in very active discussions with them about that.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are working with Poland as we speak to see if we can backfill anything that they provide to the Ukrainians, but we also want to see if we can be helpful in making sure that, whatever they provide to Ukrainians, something goes to them to make up for any gap in the security for Poland that might result.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To my knowledge, it wasn't pre-consulted with us that they planned to give these planes to us, but as you know, we have been having consultations with them for a couple of days now about this request from the Ukrainians to receive their aircraft, and were they to donate them, whether we would be able to support backfill in their own security needs.

– Victoria Nuland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're doing our best to backfill and level the losses, though we're not at 100%.

– Aaron Ockerman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is possible... that our Chinese competitors become even more aggressive in markets and in countries where they can compete, they may feel the pressure to backfill the lost business volume in the rest of the world.

– Tommi Uitto

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As 2022 approaches, A-10s will be replaced by F-35s only on a squadron-by-squadron basis as they come online, ensuring that all units have sufficient backfill and that we retain enough aircraft needed to fight today's conflicts.

– Defense Secretary Ash Carter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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