Plan to boost Biden’s defense budget could see bipartisan support
Senate lawmakers will consider increasing White House military spending plans for next year by $25 billion as part of their debate over the annual defense spending bill this week.
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Air Force officials want to spend $1.4 billion on 12 additional F-15EXs and $825 million for weapon system sustainment efforts. Marine Corps leaders asked for more than $150 million additional Naval Strike Missiles and Tactical Tomahawk missiles.
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Boosting the budget plan above $740 billion next year may bring Senate Republican support for the defense bill when it comes to a full chamber vote.
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Russia spends 12c for every dollar the US puts into it’s ‘defence’ budget. I feel sorry for Americans who have to pay for it all. The F35 will eventually cost (when tacking on service costs) $1.7 trillion! That is the GDP of an average sized country, on a plane that doesn’t and never has been fit for the roles it was designed. $100 million each. Must be the most expensive hardware failure in military history. The US is still nowhere near having a workable model to test for hypersonic weapons and thus the homeland sits defenceless., I could go on … America has it’s priorities all wrong but refuses to leave the 20th century and engage with reality. It’s hard to find things to admire about a country that is willingly destroying itself from the inside out.
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