President Joe Biden says in a Memorial Day address that Americans 'must never forget' the price paid by troops who 'dared all and gave all' to protect their democracy.
Aamer Madhani and Rebecca SantanaThank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.President Joe Biden speaks at the Memorial Amphitheater of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Memorial Day, Monday, May 29, 2023.
As it stands, the agreement would keep nondefense spending roughly flat in the 2024 fiscal year and increase it by 1% the following year. The measure would allow for 3% defense growth in fiscal 2024, to $886 billion, and then another 1% in fiscal 2025, to $895 billion. The war in Afghanistan, however, ended in chaotic and deadly fashion on Biden’s watch in August 2021 with critics blasting the administration’s handling of the evacuation of some 120,000 American citizens, Afghans and others as poorly planned and badly executed.
While making clear that he has no desire for U.S. troops to enter the conflict, Biden has maintained that he sees the Russian effort to grab territory as an affront to international norms and has vowed to help Kyiv win, sending artillery, tanks and drones and recently agreeing to allow allies to train Ukrainian military on American F-16 jets.Biden connected the sacrifices of some 400,000 Americans buried at Arlington to the work of U.S.
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