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Thornberry, McCain Slam Trump’s $603 Billion Budget Proposal

Pat Host

Monday, February 27th, 2017

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Thornberry, McCain Slam Trump’s $603 Billion Budget Proposal

President Donald Trump. Photo: White House.

A trio of key lawmakers slammed as insufficient President Donald Trump’s plan to submit a $603 billion defense budget for fiscal year 2018.House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said Monday in a statement that the Trump administration will have to make clear which problems facing the Pentagon it is choosing not to fix. Thornberry said the United States cannot make repairing and rebuilding the military conditional on fixing its budget problems or by cutting other spending.For his…

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