What exactly did Kevin McCarthy promise the hard-liners on this budget? They won't get it.
In other words, McCarthy’s deal to reduce the military budget by $75 billion isn’t really a cut—it’s a freeze at 2022 levels.
It would be easy, in theory, to remove the $45 billion that Congress tacked on last month. The House and Senate conferees simply, and for no good reason, tacked on $45 billion worth of programs that the top generals and admirals had requested but that the civilian leaders of the Pentagon and the White House rejected as lesser priorities. All the new Congress would have to do is reverse the overly extravagant gesture by the old Congress.
But most members of the new Congress were also in the old Congress, and there’s no sign that they’ve changed their minds. Nor would the new Republican House leaders be inclined to pay fealty to Biden’s original budget request.The $30 billion increase in Biden’s original budget proposal could also be trimmed without much effort. For instance, that budget includedBut nobody is going to cut these sums.
to Ukraine. Many of those who blocked his ascension to Speaker have voted against aid to Ukraine; some openly demanded a brake on further aid as a condition to their support for his bid as House leader.
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