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"In a more-robust budgetary environment, when some of the budget pressure is off, if you feel like there's more money going around you don't have to twist people's arms as much to have their programs come in at the budget numbers," says Katherine Blakeley, a former defense policy analyst with the Congressional Research Service now at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
The battle lines over defense spending in the Trump Administration are already being drawn. Senator McCain has staked out a broad vision of restored readiness, targeted investments in advanced capabilities, and thoughtful growth in military capacity. In this budget brief, CSBA Research Fellow Katherine Blakeley lays out the details of Senator McCain’s proposed defense investments with accompanying interactive visualizations.
