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House panel approves $25B boost for defense budget
The Hill ^ | 09/01/21 03:59 PM EDT | BY REBECCA KHEEL

Posted on 09/02/2021 2:17:37 AM PDT by RandFan

The House Armed Services Committee voted Wednesday to add nearly $25 billion to President Biden’s proposed defense budget as more than a dozen Democrats sided with Republicans on bulking up Pentagon funding.

The committee voted 42-17 on an amendment from Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the panel, to set the fiscal 2022 defense budget at $778 billion — $37 billion more than approved for this year and $25 billion more than Biden asked for next year.

“Most importantly, this amendment ensures we have the resources to counter the growing threat from China and other adversaries,” Rogers said at the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) markup.

The bulk of the funding in the amendment, $9.8 billion, would go toward procurement, including $4.7 billion more for shipbuilding, $1.7 billion for aircraft and $878 million for combat vehicles.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: budget; defense; dod
LOL.. They don't even need it but the MIC and Uniparty team up to deliver the goods.

Sick!

1 posted on 09/02/2021 2:17:37 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Most importantly, this amendment ensures we have the resources to counter the growing threat from China and other adversaries,>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Buahahahahahaha.

Uless they build another 5 super carriers for the South Pacific, they are blowing gas out ther collective ass.

All this money will go to education in the military about CRT and Transgenbder surgeries for lefty favored military brass.They intend to cornhole themselves all the way to Lucknow.

We need PDJT badly. The lefty asshats are destroyong America with their grift, saying one thing and doing the other.


2 posted on 09/02/2021 2:23:43 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: RandFan

It’s a bribe to keep the military onside. There will be no
Pentagon whistleblower on the Afghanistan.


3 posted on 09/02/2021 2:28:09 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

Yep.


4 posted on 09/02/2021 2:30:15 AM PDT by Ymani Cricket ( "Pressure Makes Diamonds" ~General Patton)
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To: RandFan

Well at least you can say you’re on the side of Barbara Lee now...


5 posted on 09/02/2021 2:31:31 AM PDT by Trinity5
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The Afghani junkyard

DoD and the contractors don’t GAF. Today’s casualties were Q2 expectations.


6 posted on 09/02/2021 2:32:01 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: RandFan

Recall what was left behind during the Afghanistan retreat and it’s pretty much even-steven.


7 posted on 09/02/2021 2:52:09 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: All

25B for for what ? More tranny operations ?


8 posted on 09/02/2021 2:57:52 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: RandFan

Makes sense, what with the recent expenditure of material in the Middle East. A hefty re-stocking is in order. :/


9 posted on 09/02/2021 3:03:28 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: RandFan

sure! why not?! there’s got to be another country we can build an army for...


10 posted on 09/02/2021 3:49:36 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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These jerks just gave $90 billion of our military hardware to the enemy, and they want more money?


11 posted on 09/02/2021 4:01:43 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Candor7

In four years of PDJT the budget for the critically important Navy barely moved at all. While China was building ships as fast as they could, we did almost nothing.


12 posted on 09/02/2021 4:04:41 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (resist the narrative.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

I agreem, but that was on PDJTs second term agenda.But MAGA elected will do that job. Biden? Nope.


13 posted on 09/02/2021 4:43:38 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: lodi90

Actually, Biden promised this amount to the Taliban to let our people go; but it is not a ransom.


14 posted on 09/02/2021 8:17:48 AM PDT by CoastWatcher
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