Congress poised to shoot down Biden’s nuclear rollback
The White House wants to cancel a nuclear cruise missile, but Democrats have joined Republicans to try to save it.
By LAWRENCE UKENYE and CONNOR O’BRIEN
07/06/2022 05:26 PM EDT
Updated: 07/06/2022 09:08 PM EDT
Progressives were already disappointed with President Joe Biden’s plans for the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Now they’re poised to lose one of the few things about the White House’s blueprint that they liked.
In recent weeks, Democrats have joined Republicans in adding money back into the Pentagon budget to continue developing a sea-launched nuclear cruise missile that former President Donald Trump initiated in 2018. Biden proposed canceling the missile, which arms control advocates say is redundant, costly and potentially destabilizing.
Yet testimony from top military leaders, including Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley, in support of the missile prompted other Democrats to join Republicans in rebuking Biden’s plans.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/06/congress-biden-nuclear-rollback-00044344
