Speaker of the Republican Party knocks on Trump’s budget for military spending

The Chairman of the Armed Services Committee in the Senate Roger Weiss (R-Miss) knocked on the proposal of President Trump’s budget for the year 2026 on Friday for not doing enough to keep pace with military threats from China, Russia and other opponents.

Wakel warned of the level of spending called by the White House budget, “will reduce President Trump’s military options and his negotiating financial lever.”

“President Trump succeeded in a campaign against peace through the agenda of power, but his advisers to the administration and budget office did not seem to listen. As for the defense budget, OMB asked the fifth year directly to fund the Biden administration, leaving military spending, which is reduced by the real value,” Wekir said in a statement.

The director of the Ross’s management and budget office wrote in a letter to the Chair of the Senate Committee for the Senate Su-Mine that Trump’s budget would increase defense spending by 13 percent for the fiscal year 2026, up to $ 1.01 trillion.

However, one of the Republican Senate Party assistants said that the White House budget office requested $ 893 billion in basic defensive spending for the next year through the annual credits process and fills this number with funding that administration officials hope to include in the budget reconciliation bill that will include tax cuts and other priorities.

The assistant pointed out that the budget allocated to defense in the fiscal year 2025 amounted to 893 billion dollars, and that the White House’s proposal to estimate the defense in the fiscal year 2026 is $ 893, and not to calculate any money that may come from the separate reconciliation process.

Wicker and other defense hawks in the Senate repeatedly said that $ 150 billion in new defensive spending they plan to include in the budget reconciliation bill must be an attachment to regular defensive spending, which they argue should grow on an annual basis to meet national security needs.

“I said months ago that the spending of defense of reconciliation does not resolve the need for real growth in the budget of the army base,” Waker said on Friday.

Wicker and Defense Hawks in Capitol Hill imagine the defense funds in the reconciliation bill for new defense priorities, such as Trump’s golden missile defense project, and not compensate for a shortfall in the annual budget.

It is expected that the direct defense spending of $ 150 billion, which is included in the budget settlement bill over the next four years.

The White House budget proposal will withdraw $ 119 billion in defense spending in the reconciliation bill to calculate what he describes as a defensive budget of $ 1 trillion for the next year, according to the Senate Source.

“It was always assumed that the beautiful great reconciliation bill has always been to change the direction of the Pentagon in programs such as Golden Dome and Support Border PRDUDE and unmanned capabilities – not for the paper on the intention of OMB to tear our military capabilities and support for members Armament in 2026.

In his statement, Waker said that the White House “does not ask for a trillion dollar budget.”

“He is asking for a budget of 892.6 billion dollars, which is a reduction in real terms,” ​​he said. “This budget will reduce President Trump’s military options and negotiating financial lever.”

He added: “We face a hub of the aggressors led by the Communist Party of China, who have already started a trade war rather than negotiating good faith.” “We need real peace through the power agenda to ensure that Xi Jinping does not launch a military war against us in Asia, as well as his current military support for the Russians, the Iranians, Hamas and Hato.”

He argued in a brief call with correspondents on Friday that the White House budget provides “a more durable way to reach a trillion dollars in defensive spending.”

The proposed increase in 13 percent in defensive spending for the next year, which includes additional financing that Republicans hope to comment on the reconciliation bill to expand tax rates for 2017 and secure the borders between the United States and Mexico, as a “very healthy increase”.

“We want to make sure that the capabilities needed by the Ministry of Defense, she says she wants, says she is vital,” Feon said. “We change the way this place works, and we are pleased to continue to explain this to hill. I am not surprised that we will have to do some works on this front.”

Alex Gangitano contributed.