President Joe Biden is expected to request Congress to allocate over $770,000,000,000 for defense for 2023, billions more than Trump requested in his last year in office.
Officials are still negotiating the final amount, the sources said, meaning that the budget could end up changing in the coming months. The budget for the Pentagon is roughly in line with what Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has requested, and the overall budget would be used for salaries, nuclear weapons programs, tanks and Lockheed Martin’s F-35 aircraft.
Provisions to address actual national threats like the climate crisis have also been put on the backburner, with billions of dollars for
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