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GOP senator urges $55B defense budget boost to counter China, Russia and Iran
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2:00Now PlayingThe leading Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee is bucking his party’s isolationist leanings and urging an increase of $55 billion in defense spending to counter Chinese, Russian and Iranian aggression. NY Post Politics Reporter Josh Christenson shares this story.
Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) released a wide-ranging plan on Wednesday to confront the “emerging Axis of Aggressors” by giving the fiscal year 2025 defense budget a boost and upping its spending to 5% of the nation’s GDP in five to seven years.
“When America’s senior military leaders testify before my colleagues and me on the US Senate Armed Services Committee behind closed doors, they have said that we face some of the most dangerous global threat environments since World War II,” Wicker wrote in a New York Times op-ed announcing the plan.
“Then, they darken that already unsettling picture by explaining that our armed forces are at risk of being underequipped and outgunned,” he added. “We struggle to build and maintain ships, our fighter jet fleet is dangerously small, and our military infrastructure is outdated.”
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