The Biden administration released its nearly $7 trillion 2024 budget request to Congress on Thursday, which included $886 billion for defense — a 3.2 percent boost from the prior year’s defense budget. https://t.co/sXbdqyOMjS — ABC News (@ABC) March 9, 2023However, Republican defense hawks say the defense budget needs to be higher due to inflation under the Biden administration. The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee Roger Wicker (R-MS) called the defense budget request “woefully inadequate and disappointing.”“The President’s defense budget is woefully inadequate and disappointing. It does not even resource his own National Defense Strategy to protect our country from growing threats around the world. Add in Ukraine War spending, and likely Congressional increases we could be looking at $1 trillion for the first time.

Source: ABC News March 10, 2023 09:27 UTC