Biden’s Indo-Pacific Supplemental ‘A Joke,’ Won’t Stop China: Rep. Gallagher

The chair of Congress’ China committee says that the Biden administration’s supplemental funding is ‘woefully insufficient’ to the task of countering China.

Subcommittee chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) speaks during a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation hearing about artificial intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 18, 2023. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

The Biden administration’s recent security supplemental for Israel, Ukraine, and the Indo-Pacific fails to prioritize the threat posed by communist China, according to one lawmaker.

President Joe Biden’s $105 billion supplemental request would spend less than four percent of that amount on strengthening military deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. Such a proposal, said Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), simply does not take the threat from communist China seriously.