A bi-partisan commission is warning that America’s longstanding military advantages have diminished.

The report found that budget shortfalls, overtaxed military forces around the world, and equipment issues are putting the nations security at risk.

South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds says years of budget sequestrations had an impact..

Rounds says the military could not handle a two front war right now..

Rounds says Russia and China continue to expand and improve their military forces..

President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to cut its next budget request about five percent, to seven hundred billion dollars.