Its not the budget, its Obama. Its also a Joints Chief of Staff that is a gaggle of politically correct careerists and not a warriors council committed to the nation’s defense.
They don’t necessarily want to see it completely eliminated. They only want to see it reduced so that an opponent can, with a very high probability of success, completely destroy our nuclear capability in one fell swoop. Once that is done, Obama can order the Trident SSBNs base to their home ports and the stage is set.
Unilateral disarmament today, Russian occupation tomorrow - after the major US and European and Russian cities are eliminated as moslem threats. Our D.C. mandarins don’t understand islam but the Russians do and will destroy us to save themselves. It’s all about who has the nukes.