US Army, Air Force Budget Requests Not Geared to Check China: Subcommittee Chair

A lot of facts are built into the proposed 412-page Fiscal Year (FY24) U.S. defense budget, nearly $1 trillion worth of them.
But trends in budget requests from the service branches under the Biden administration make at least two “immutable facts” stand out to Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.).
“First, the Army does not have sufficient money to support their Army modernization strategy,” said Wittman, chair of the House Armed Services Committee’s Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee.
“The second immutable fact,” he said, “is that the Air Force is getting smaller because the budget does not support Air Force requirements.”…}