Some House GOP budget-cutters say Pentagon budget shouldn't be sacrosanct.
The rhetorical dissonance stems from the ambiguity of the commitments did or didn’t make to secure the last few votes needed to push him over the top in his contentious 15-round bid to claim the chamber's top job.
And like McCarthy himself, who said last year there should be “no blank check” to Ukraine in military assistance to thwart Russia's aggression, Luna told Fox News's Neil Cavuto she “absolutely” believes there is room to cut military assistance to Ukraine. Total military aid to Ukraine in its nearly yearlong defensive war against Russia is over $25 billion and counting.
That's a sharp turn away from traditional Republican support for larger military budgets. Particularly those pushed for and enacted by the late President Ronald Reagan during his 1981-89 White House tenure, part of a"peace through strength" approach many cite as crucial in the Soviet Union's 1991 collapse.
Establishment Republicans argue the threat to the Pentagon’s bottom line is overblown, given there remains a solid bipartisan pro-defense majority in both chambers. As evidenced by the $45 billion added to the Pentagon’s budget for this fiscal year above what President Joe Biden's administration requested.
While it’s true the hard-right faction in the House lacks the votes to impose major cuts in defense spending, the fractious vote for speaker demonstrated as few as five members can block legislation that does not enjoy Democratic support.
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