President Joe Biden’s proposed $813 billion national security spending request to Congress includes $773 billion in direct allocations for the U.S. military with significant boosts in funding designed to counter the growing military threat in the western Pacific presented by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). “This will be among the largest investments in our national security in history. Some people don’t like the increase, but we’re in a different world today,” Biden said Monday while introducing his proposed $1.58 trillion fiscal year 2023 budget plan. “The world has changed,” he continued. The United States “is once again facing increased competition from other nation states—China and Russia—which are going to require investments to make things like space and cyber and other advanced capabilities, including hypersonics.” The 149-page budget plan, certain to be significantly amended before the fiscal year begins Oct. 1 by Congress with Republicans vowing to further boost military …
Proposed Biden Defense Budget Names China as ‘Primary Strategic Challenge’
March 29, 2022
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