The idea that Congress can continue to increase pay and benefits while cutting everything else will create a hollow force unable to achieve its missions.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on June 01, 2021 at 11:06 AM
USS Dewey (DDG 105) fires an SM-2 missile.
WASHINGTON: The chairman of the House seapower subcommittee, Rep. Joe Courtney, fired a shot across the bow of the White House shipbuilding budget, questioning its proposed cuts to surface warships.
An even more prominent Democrat, Senate Armed Services chairman Jack Reed, signaled loud and clear he plans to treat the Biden budget as a rough draft, not gospel. While Reed didn’t cite specific areas of disagreement the way Courtney did, he sounded sympathetic to pleas for higher spending.
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“The President’s Defense Budget Request is an outline and a starting point,” Reed said in a statement late Friday. “Of note, Fiscal Year 2022 is the first in many years that we will not be constrained by the Budget Control Act. Eliminating arbitrary spending caps means every department’s budget can, and should, be argued on its merits.”
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by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) The Budget Control Act of 2011 expires this year, and that is a good thing.
This law led to a decade of underfunding our domestic priorities, from which it will take years to recover. Right now, in communities across the country, our infrastructure is crumbling, millions of Americans cannot access federal programs for which they qualify, and we are falling behind in investing in science, research, and development on the global economic stage.
All of this because the Budget Control Act set artificial and unrealistically low caps on discretionary spending, and it inflicted arbitrary, across-the-board spending cuts known as “sequestration.”