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May 31, 2023

Republicans push for more military spending in debt deal as they decry deficit

“A defense budget that served a coherent strategy, one that makes meaningful choices between regions, perceived enemies, and programs to combat them, would be less ambitious and cheap,” said Defense Priorities Policy Director Benjamin Friedman. “The real problem with U.S. defense is that it underwrites an impossibly ambitious and counterproductive effort to dominate the world militarily.”

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