The Biden-Harris failure to provide for the common defense
By
Washington Examiner
September 14, 2024 12:01 am
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was on target in Sept. 12 floor remarks lambasting President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats for failing to take national defense seriously.
Democrats’ refusal to meet security obligations was put into stark relief by a July 29 report from a special Commission on the National Defense Strategy, which, as McConnell noted, describes sobering challenges that Democrats are determined to ignore.
As we editorialized the day the report came out, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had by then already been sitting on the National Defense Authorization Act for more than six weeks after the Senate Armed Service Committee approved it for full Senate consideration. More than another six weeks later, Schumer has still done nothing, and commander in chief Biden has not publicly urged him to get moving. Even the NDAA falls short of urgent security needs identified by the commission’s report, yet the president and majority leader can’t stir themselves, the former from weeks lolling on the beach, to take even the necessary first step of passing the NDAA, much less acknowledge broader needs.
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