President Biden requested a $753 billion military budget for the 2022 fiscal year, which would be the highest of all time. But this number is not enough for Republican hawks in Congress. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WI) said not increasing the budget by three to five percent would be a “red line” for Republicans. Biden’s budget request would be about a 1.6 percent increase from 2021.
“In my view, that is a red line, and if the administration is not going to be proposing a budget that meets that requirement, then I think they will need to explain to the American people why they’re unwilling to fund defense at the levels the nation needs,” Cheney said at the McAleese Defense Programs Conference, which was held virtually on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Paul McLeary on May 13, 2021 at 2:25 PM
Marine Corps Gen. David Berger.
WASHINGTON: Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger pledged today he won’t ask for a budget increase for at least the next two years.
Berger has already said that he didn’t request a larger budget in the upcoming 2022 budget, but he pushed that goal further this afternoon, declaring at the McAleese Defense Programs Conference that “for two years at least we will not ask for one additional dollar” from the White House or Congress.
Over the past two years, Berger has pushed for what have been the most sweeping changes to the size and composition of his force among the armed services, and informed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin earlier this year he would not request any more money in the 2022 budget than what the Corps received in 2021.
Screengrab from Air Force 2030 Call to Action video
24 Feb 2021
The U.S. Air Force isn t ruling out bringing a new fighter jet into its inventory as it looks to replace older, fourth-generation F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, according to the service s top general.
As the service tries to determine the right mix of aircraft for its future inventory, it s considering the idea of a new fighter that falls somewhere between fourth- and fifth-generation airframes one that could easily be upgraded throughout its life, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles CQ Brown said last week. Let s not just buy off the shelf; let s actually take a look at something else out there that we can build, Brown said during a Defense Writers Group virtual chat with reporters. He added that the service would want something that can be economically sustainable, produced quickly and has an open-architecture software system that can be rapidly modified to keep up with missions.