Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is urging lawmakers to pass a new spending bill for the Pentagon roughly three weeks before the government is set to shut down on Dec. 16.
Austin expressed the urgency in avoiding another continuing resolution, a temporary funding measure that provides negotiators with more time to agree to a large spending bill, in a letter addressed to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer , House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy , and House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro reported by Politico.
The military is unable to achieve its goals under a CR, the secretary argued, both in terms of modernization as well as for supporting service members and their families. "The CR hurts American Service members and their families. For example, if the CR extends beyond December, we may be forced to reduce accessions or permanent change of station moves, impairing our ability to meet our missions, and causing unnecessary disruption to our families and our ability to recruit personnel," he wrote."As in FY2022, it is impairing our ability to hire the people we need to accelerate our efforts to eradicate sexual assault and prevent suicides.
A shutdown or CR would “cause delays in all three legs of the nuclear trial when we have no schedule margin left to give,” and Austin pleaded with congress to “break this pattern of extensive inaction.”He also argued the United States wouldn’t be able to “outcompete China with our hands tied behind our back three, four, five or six months of every fiscal year," which officials have described as the U.S.'s most formidable adversary.
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