White House urges Senate authorization panel to reverse four missile defense provisions

By Jason Sherman / September 17, 2020 at 3:02 PM
The Trump administration is balking at four missile defense provisions advanced by the Senate Armed Services Committee's mark of the fiscal year 2021 defense authorization bill, asking lawmakers to reconsider a funding cut and increase to the Next Generation Interceptor and Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii programs, respectively. The White House Office of Management and Budget is also asking the Republic-led Senate panel to scrap legislation that would establish a new project to modernize the existing Ground-based Interceptor fleet and roll back...

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