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Dem Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill To Save $73 Billion Through Nuclear Weapons Cuts

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, May 24th, 2021

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Dem Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill To Save $73 Billion Through Nuclear Weapons Cuts

The Air Force test launches a Minuteman III ICBM. Photo: Air Force.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) on Monday reintroduced a bill that aims to save $73 billion over the next decade through cuts to nuclear weapons programs, to include canceling development of new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) and submarine-launched cruise missiles. The Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures (SANE) Act, which has been proposed several times in recent years, would also prohibit space-based missile defense efforts and remove the F-35’s nuclear-based mission. “President Biden can create a future…

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