Posted on 07/24/2021 4:37:06 PM PDT by Libloather
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s move to authorize significantly more defense spending next year than President Joe Biden wants demonstrates that there’s still a sizable number of Democratic hawks in the Senate willing to challenge the party’s dovish progressive wing.
At the committee’s Wednesday markup of the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, Oklahoma’s James M. Inhofe, the ranking Republican, offered an amendment to authorize $25 billion more than Biden requested (and $37 billion more than what was appropriated for the current fiscal year), aides said.
The committee has made little information about the closed markup public. But aides disclosed Friday that a separate vote was held on the total amount of funding, and they also revealed the final tally: 25-1.
That vote, with only Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren objecting, sends a powerful message in the ongoing debate over how to allocate the government’s discretionary budget, between defense and nondefense spending. It also indicates that the loud voices on the Democratic Party’s left, who complained that the 1.6 percent defense budget increase proposed by Biden was too large, will face a struggle in their own party.
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But congressional aides said that when it came time to vote on final approval of the bill, Warren again voted “no.” So, too, did Republicans Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Josh Hawley of Missouri. Cotton and Hawley were concerned about a provision that would require women for the first time to register for the draft.
Inhofe’s amendment ratified what senators on the panel had decided long before Wednesday. Otherwise, the committee would not have been ready to allocate the additional billions for specific defense programs. Much of the boost went toward programs that top generals and admirals had identified as priorities that did not make the president’s budget request.
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Just make sure Joe gets his 10% and he will go along with it.
Dems want more defense spending? I guess we need more diversity training and political commisars to purge patriots.
Must be some family and cronies defense contractor companies not doing so hot
Bullets do not fire.themselves. Enlisted ranks are probability gonna walk over the woke training
Against whom do these liberals’ wish to use the military...other than the Americans?
They aren’t hawks. They’re insider traders … bet on it.
'Defense Spending" will include:
Gun Confiscation,
Identifying and jailing all registered Republicans,
Placing Troops at gas stations to ration gas,.....
You really need to buy some of Hunter’s artwork for that level of funding.
DemonicRats want to spend MORE. This is a story?
To the Left, the military is the biggest Social Program of them all.
Their desire for increased money for the military has nothing to do with external foes. The envision a time soon where one of the most trusted institutions in the US will be turned on it’s people. The enemy is us.
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