One lawmaker said he 'wonders when we are just going to get the amendment to have a trillion-dollar defense budget because it seems that's where we are going.'
—in order to see why this additional funding is necessary to meet the security challenges of our time," Golden said Wednesday.
Golden's amendment includes additional funding for every military branch in addition to vessel and aircraft funding and additional military assistance in Ukraine. As part of the amendment, that country would receive $550 million under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, bringing Ukraine security-related funding in the overall bill to about $1 billion.
In terms of countering inflation, the amendment contains $3.5 billion for military construction inflation costs, $2.5 billion to offset the costs of fuel inflation, and $1.4 billion for inflation-related personnel bonuses, as well as additional housing and commissary support. The House Armed Services Committee voted on Wednesday to increase Pentagon fiscal year 2023 national defense spending by $37 billion, with Representative Jared Golden attributing the increase to the Russia-Ukraine war, Chinese aggression and rising inflation. Above, a Navy F35 flies during the Huntington Beach Pacific Air Show on October 1, 2021, in Huntington Beach, California.
"More money isn't necessarily the answer....The American people deserve an open and candid debate among elected representatives inabout our country's defense priorities and the resources required to achieve them," Smith said in a statement."The committee has discussed these issues before, and I welcome the opportunity for us to discuss them again as we craft the NDAA this year.
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