What Does A Biden Presidency Mean For Defense?

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Jon Harper, National Defense: What a Biden Presidency Means for Defense  

With Democratic President Joe Biden in the White House and Republicans maintaining sway over the Senate, observers shouldn’t expect a radical change in military spending or strategy, analysts say.

Biden is set to be inaugurated Jan. 20, and the GOP is slated to have at least 50 seats in the Senate in the next session, depending on the results of a Jan. 5 runoff election in Georgia. 

Defense spending in fiscal year 2020 stood at $738 billion. 

Many prognosticators have forecasted declining military budgets in coming years in response to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and ballooning federal deficits. 

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WNU Editor: I think this is what is gong to happen in a Biden administration .... Will a Biden Administration Mean a Smaller Military Budget? Preventing future pandemics, and addressing long-standing inequalities, will require cutting our bloated Pentagon budget (William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger, The Nation).

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