GOP Senators Question Biden’s Navy Budget as China Projects Having 150 More Ships Than US by 2028
Republican senators expressed concerns this week about the Biden administration’s Navy budget, saying that the proposed spending is not adequate to confront the threat posed by China’s expanding naval forces.
“This administration’s budget request does not fully reflect the challenges identified in its own national defense strategy,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said at a hearing on March 28.
“The President’s budget requests would result in a fleet of 291 ships at the end of the next five years,” Collins added. “That is smaller than today’s fleet of 296 ships, and significantly smaller than the Navy’s own requirement of 373 ships.”…