McCain Pitches $430 Billion Boost in 5-Year Defense Budget
A U.S. Army soldier walks while controlling an unmanned vehicle as part of an exercise on July 22, 2016, at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, Hawaii. Sen. John McCain has proposed increasing defense spending by $430 billion over the next five years, with some of the funding going to advance technologies such as unmanned ground vehicles. (U.S. Air Force photo/Christopher Hubenthal)A U.S. Army soldier walks while controlling an unmanned vehicle as part of an exercise on July 22, 2016, at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, Hawaii. Sen. John McCain has proposed increasing defense spending by $430 billion over the next five years, with some of the funding going to advance technologies such as unmanned ground vehicles. (U.S. Air Force photo/Christopher Hubenthal)
Posted By: Brendan McGarry January 17, 2017
An influential senator on a key defense panel has proposed spending $430 billion more on defense over the next five years.
Sen. John McCain, a Republican from Arizona and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, included the figure in a white paper he released on Tuesday.
“The damage that has been done to our military over the past eight years will not be reversed in one year,” the document states. “Just stemming the bleeding caused by recent budget cuts will take most of the next five years, to say nothing of the sustained increases in funding required thereafter.”
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