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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump © Mike Segar / Reuters
Donald Trump is looking to end defense spending cuts and allocate even more funds in the more than $600 billion US military budget, his campaign says. The tycoon wants to bolster the Army with new ships, planes and submarines.
The Republican presidential hopeful is going to announce his military plan in a speech on Wednesday, according to a campaign senior official, who briefed the media on the eve of the event.
Trump would be proposing a “major investment” in the US military, which he has repeatedly referred as a “disaster” in his statements.
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Trump tells veterans he’ll rebuild military, ‘clean up’ VA“I will ask Congress to eliminate the sequester and immediately re-invest in our military,” Trump said in a speech at a rally in Greenville, North Carolina earlier on Tuesday.
However, his campaign would not say how Trump plans to bypass what is known as the Budget Control Act of 2011, Bloomberg reported. The provision, adopted over five year ago, set limits on defense spending up until the fiscal year for 2021. It also imposed major sequestration cuts for the Department of Defense, which according to the Center of Strategies and International Studies (CSIS), would total roughly $1 billion over 10 years.
At the Pentagon, such “across-the-board” budget cuts are seen as potentially threatening to national security.
Still, America’s defense spending places it at the forefront of the list of the world’s most militarized states, with a budget equal to that of the next 10 states combined.
According to Reuters, Trump wants to allocate funds for upgrading the US military with new ships, planes and submarines; to bolster missile defense systems and to improve combat troops training.
“Our active-duty armed forces have shrunk from 2 million in 1991 to about 1.3 million today,” Trump said in a speech in April. “The Navy has shrunk from over 500 ships to 272 ships during this same period of time. The Air Force is about one-third smaller than 1991. Pilots flying B-52s in combat missions today. These planes are older than virtually everybody in this room.”
In his campaign video posted on YouTube in January, Trump was vowing to “make our Military so big, powerful and strong that nobody - absolutely nobody - will mess with us.”
Yet, he has also pleated to make the US army “so strong” again without increasing the military budget, because he is going to “look for savings and spend our money wisely.”
Also on Wednesday, Trump plans to criticize his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, for "military adventurism" in regard to her mishandling of Libya and the Middle East as secretary of state, Reuters reported.
Source: https://www.rt.com/usa/358474-trump-cuts-military-plan/
