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Ya. That’s not where it’s going. Those will also be cut.
Republicans don't want a strong America. Republicans don't believe in America. Republicans don't believe in defending freedom. Republicans are weak on national defense.
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This is where the party is truly split. There are are still old school Republican hawks that would spend lavishly on defense. Then their is another group, let’s call them Russian assets, whose job is to weaken NATO and alienate American Allies under the guise of fiscal responsibility. >

Bingo >

...targeted defense cuts in US support for Ukraine.  Anything to help Putin. >

Oh, the libs will be so owned when the defense budget goes down. How will we ever afford our woke tanks? /s >

There have been many things you voted in favor of or against that I find difficult to understand. The voting rights bill is one. Every American should have easy access to voting. >

They want to Defund the military.  They are so soft on national defense. >

I am going to need a new supply of popcorn for this and the myriad of other self owning the GOP has hoisted upon itself. >

The GOP played itself it seems.

Less than two weeks after cementing another major increase to the Pentagon budget, lawmakers are now talking about going the opposite direction — and are even raising the specter of across-the-board cuts that rocked the establishment just over a decade ago.
An emerging deal between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and conservatives who initially opposed his bid for the gavel looks to exact deep spending cuts. This comes amid a looming partisan fight over the debt limit, compounding fears that overall spending is poised for a return to automatic reductions known as sequestration.

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Texas Republican Tony Gonzales plans to oppose the rules package in part because of his concerns about national security spending.
“This has a proposed billions of dollar cut to defense, which I think is a horrible idea when you have [an] aggressive Russia in Ukraine, you have a growing threat of China in the Pacific,” Gonzales said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “How am I going to look at our allies in the eye and say, ‘I need you to increase your defense budget,’ but yet America is going to decrease ours?”
Defense hawks are eyeing another real increase this year of up to 5 percent to meet threats posed by Russia and China and to mitigate high inflation. And supporters of increased defense spending are now warning up front that they outnumber the budget hardliners in the GOP conference.

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"[D]uring negotiations, cuts to defense were NEVER DISCUSSED,” Roy’s office wrote on Twitter. “In fact, there was broad agreement spending cuts should focus on NON-DEFENSE discretionary spending. This means cutting funding for the woke & weaponized bureaucrats that received massive increases under the $1.7 trillion omnibus.”

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Our defense budget is bloated, not because of “work policies,” but due to defense contractors buying off congress. We also spend more on our military than the next 15 or so countries combined. I would support a 10-20% cut to the defense budget if the money saved could go towards social programs, such as free college or paid family leave.