April 21, 2021
Biden Is Thinking Big on Jobs. On the Pentagon, He Should Think Smaller.
An increase in the military budget won’t make us safer or more prosperous.
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The last weeks have brought a flurry of major proposals from President Joe Biden, from his $2 trillion jobs plan still hot off the presses to a plan to finally withdraw troops from Afghanistan—and an strangely incongruent request for a bigger military budget.
With domestic needs running high and America’s longest war at long last scheduled to end, it’s puzzling that the president would also call for an increase in the military budget—from $740 billion this year to $753 billion next year.
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