Trump's military build-up to spark GOP civil war
The president will make some strange alliances as he seeks a Pentagon budget boost.
By Austin Wright and Jeremy Herb
02/15/17 05:24 AM EST
President Donald Trump is about to blow up the uneasy détente between GOP defense and fiscal hawks.
The Pentagon is set to seek tens of billions of dollars from Congress to implement Trump’s vow to rebuild the military — “to load it up” with “beautiful new equipment,” as he said at the U.S. Central Command in Florida last week. And Republicans are already drawing battle lines over whether the extra defense dollars should be added to the deficit or, as many in the party have long insisted, be matched with equal cuts elsewhere.
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