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On May 23 the Pentagon is expected to release its defense budget request, one that is anticipated to provide $603 billion and focus on improving military readiness. But when it comes to making the fiscal 2018 budget law, the Trump administration is “walking into a political buzz saw,” says Katherine Blakeley, a budget analyst for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Defense hawks in Congress are supportive of a larger increase to defense spending, but the support ...
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.
