US Army, Air Force Budget Requests Not Geared to Check China: Subcommittee Chair

U.S. Army M109A6 Paladin self-propelled howitzers fire at the U.S. Army's Rodriguez range in Pocheon, South Korea, on March 15, 2012. Kim Hong-Ji/AFP via Getty Images

A lot of facts are built into the proposed 412-page Fiscal Year (FY24) U.S. defense budget, nearly $1 trillion worth of them.

But trends in budget requests from the service branches under the Biden administration make at least two “immutable facts” stand out to Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.).