Top congressional Democrats are circling their wagons around President Biden's first defense budget request, while Republicans are calling it "wholly inadequate." The total Pentagon request is $715 billion and is part of $753 billion in total national defense spending for fiscal year 2022. Though the Pentagon’s request is $11.3 billion, or 1.6% more than what Congress enacted in FY-21, that figure does not keep pace with inflation and amounts to a cut of less than 1%. Republicans have been arguing...
