President Joe Biden released his official fiscal 2025 defense budget request in March, and in the document, his administration’s misguided priorities are on full display.
While paying lip service to the concept of China as the primary challenge for the United States, the official request fails to align spending with strategy.
Most egregiously, the request fails to procure the ships, aircraft, and munitions the military needs to deter China in the Indo-Pacific.
It is, in a word, insufficient to keep the American people safe.
In response, The Heritage Foundation has produced an alternative “Conservative Defense Budget for Fiscal Year 2025,” which details what a fiscally conservative and strategically focused conservative defense budget would look like.
>>>Read more: “A Conservative Defense Budget for Fiscal Year 2025”
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