OMB: House panel's National Missile Defense legislation destabilizing, unaffordable, undoable

By Jason Sherman / July 11, 2023 at 11:02 AM
The Biden administration is balking at a House proposal the executive branch argues could upend two decades of missile defense policy by expanding the limited objective of defending the nation against intercontinental ballistic missile attack from North Korea and Iran to shielding the nation from the massive nuclear arsenals of Russia and China. The White House Office of Management and Budget, in a formal response to the House Armed Services Committee’s version of the fiscal year 2024 defense policy bill,...

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