McCain, Thornberry Decry Trump Pentagon Budget Boost
By Colin Clark on February 27, 2017 at 2:54 PM
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President Trump and Defense Secretary James Mattis
President Trump and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is pledging “an historic increase in defense spending” of $54 billion to $603 billion for the fiscal 2018 budget, but neither Congressional Republicans nor defense budgets experts were very impressed at first glance.
“Such a budget request would represent an increase of $18.5 billion above the level proposed by President Obama for fiscal year 2018. In other words, President Trump intends to submit a defense budget that is a mere three percent above President Obama’s defense budget, which has left our military underfunded, undersized, and unready to confront threats to our national security,” Sen. John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says in a statement.
http://breakingdefense.com/2017/02/mccain-thornberry-decry-trump-pentagon-budget-boost/
