GOP Defense Leaders Pushing Trillion-Dollar Pentagon Budget

The GOP chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is aiming to “significantly” increase defense spending this year, and he has a new Senate counterpart who also wants to bridge intraparty divides to make that a reality.

Defense spending should be at the “minimum threshold” of 4% of US gross domestic product, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said in an interview. “My number one priority is defense spending, getting it significantly increased and starting the process to getting us to a much higher threshold,” Rogers said. “We need to get over 4% of GDP in defense. We got to start the ...