Dem senator: Support for nuclear modernization funding contingent on arms control progress

By Justin Doubleday / September 18, 2018 at 4:07 PM
Continued bipartisan support for the U.S. government's $1.2 trillion nuclear modernization plans is intertwined with the Trump administration's progress on key arms control agreements with Russia, according to a Democratic senator. "I also want to remind the administration that bipartisan support for nuclear modernization is tied to maintaining an arms control process that controls and seeks to reduce Russian nuclear forces, which inevitably means promoting militarily and fiscally responsible policies on ourselves," Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez...

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