Trump’s Military Buildup Won’t Begin Until 2019
By Marcus Weisgerber Read bio
May 23, 2017
Pentagon officials say they're working to fix readiness first, then grow the military.
Don’t expect to see President Donald Trump’s promised military buildup kick into gear until 2019, senior Pentagon officials said Tuesday, hours after delivering their 2018 request to Capitol Hill.
The $639 billion defense spending request — that’s a $574 billion “base budget” plus $65 billion to fight in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria and send more troops to Europe — tops the current year’s base-plus-overseas contingency operations total by about $52 billion.
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