Joe Biden’s Aspirational Defense Budget

The Biden administration submitted its 2024 defense budget request of $842 billion to Congress with wonderful messaging about it being the largest, strategy-aligned and procurement-focused budget — a budget sufficient to carry out America’s national security and defense strategies.

Unfortunately, these claims are not backed by facts. They are aspirations — only hopes or ambitions to achieve something.

The budget “aspires” to be an increase; it is not; it aspires to be a procurement budget; it is not. And though it claims to be enough to support strategic requirements; it is not.

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