{"id":1940708,"date":"2023-05-30T10:58:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T14:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-vows-to-fix-bidens-defense-budget-disaster-in-debt-ceiling-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-05-30T11:01:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:01:24","slug":"graham-vows-to-fix-bidens-defense-budget-disaster-in-debt-ceiling-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-vows-to-fix-bidens-defense-budget-disaster-in-debt-ceiling-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham pledges to address Biden&#8217;s defense budget crisis in debt ceiling agreement."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-vows-to-fix-bidens-defense-budget-disaster-in-debt-ceiling-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1940708&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Senator Lindsey Graham Vows to Fix Defense Spending \u201cDisaster\u201d<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0530\/81687ddf-ce58-4f52-998b-2ba999518e10\/audio.mp3?length=4360077&#038;duration=363\"><\/div>\n<p>Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is not happy with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-vows-to-fix-bidens-defense-budget-disaster-in-debt-ceiling-deal\/\" title=\"Graham pledges to address Biden's defense budget crisis in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-defense-bill-moves-to-lift-debt-ceiling-after-bipartisan-agreement\/\" title=\"House Passes Defense Bill, Moves To Lift Debt Ceiling After Bipartisan Agreement\">debt ceiling agreement<\/a>.&#8221;>debt ceiling deal agreed<\/a> upon by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). In a tweet on Monday, Graham vowed to use all powers available to him in the Senate to have amendment votes to undo what he called a \u201ccatastrophe\u201d for defense spending. He supports raising the debt limit for 90 days to give them a chance to correct this disaster for defense.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHave total disgust for political leaders\u2019 decision to make it remotely possible to gut our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-officials-warn-rough-road-ahead-in-afghanistan-critics-warn-bidens-response-will-shatter-international-partnerships\/\" title=\"Biden officials warn rough road ahead in Afghanistan, critics warn Biden\u2019s response will shatter international partnerships\">national security apparatus<\/a> at a time of great peril,\u201d Graham added. \u201cTake this absurd idea off the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>The Issue with the Debt Ceiling Agreement<\/h3>\n<p>The debt ceiling agreement would cap defense spending at $886 billion in fiscal 2024, which is only a 3.5 percent increase. This is below the current rate of inflation, which was 5 percent in March and 4.9 percent in April. At the heart of the issue is the defense budget allocated for the U.S. Navy, which has to confront a China currently boasting the largest navy in the world. Republican lawmakers have argued that Navy\u2019s share of the FY2024 defense budget, estimated at $255.8 billion, is inadequate.<\/p>\n<h3>China\u2019s Growing Threat<\/h3>\n<p>By 2028, China would have \u201cupward of 440\u201d ships while the U.S. Navy would have 291 ships, said U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos del Toro during a congressional hearing in March. However, the Navy chief added that the U.S. naval ships would be \u201cextremely more modern than they ever have been.\u201d As of April, the U.S. Navy had a fleet of 298 ships, according to the Congressional Research Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow far the Party of [former President] Ronald Reagan has fallen. The Biden defense budget has been ridiculed by Republicans for over a year,\u201d Graham wrote in a separate post on Monday. \u201cRepublicans and Democrats both have been screaming about the rise and growing threat of China.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Bigger Fleets Win<\/h3>\n<p>Sam Tangredi, a professor at the U.S. Naval College and a former U.S. Navy captain, warned that bigger fleets always win in naval warfare, in an article published in the January issue of the U.S. Naval Institute\u2019s Proceedings magazine. Tangredi reviewed 28 naval wars from about 500 BC to recent Cold War proxy conflicts and interventions, and found that 25 were \u201cwon by the side with the larger fleet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll other wars were won by superior numbers or, when between equal forces, superior strategy, or admiralship,\u201d Tangredi wrote. \u201cOften all three qualities act together, because operating a large fleet generally facilitates more extensive training and is often an indicator that leaders are concerned with strategic requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tangredi ended his article with a warning about the United States fighting China\u2019s military (PLA) and its Navy (PLAN).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA naval war against China in the western Pacific in this decade would pit a smaller U.S. naval force against a larger PLAN, on China\u2019s home turf, within range of the PLA\u2019s air and rocket forces,\u201d he wrote. \u201cU.S. leaders must ask themselves to what extent they are willing to bet on technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Senator Graham called out McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) while pointing to the Ukraine war. \u201cNothing in this bill provides weapons or technology to help Ukraine defeat [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and make the world more stable,\u201d Graham wrote on Twitter. \u201cTo Biden, McConnell, and McCarthy, what are we going to do about our own national defense as well as our support of Ukraine? We need to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5291513\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/25\/id5291513-05222023-DSC04790-Kevin-McCarthy-1200x800.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/25\/id5291513-05222023-DSC04790-Kevin-McCarthy-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks to the press after meeting President Joe Biden to discuss the debt limit at the White House in Washington on May 22, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu\/The Epoch Times)\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) pledged to address the &#8220;disastrous&#8221; defense spending in the debt ceiling agreement made by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Graham stated that he would use all available Senate powers to hold amendment votes and reverse the &#8220;catastrophe&#8221; for defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":1940709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4795,5877,3706,4463,10142,6170,5487,3998,3803,5136],"class_list":["post-1940708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-address","tag-agreement","tag-bidens","tag-budget","tag-ceiling","tag-crisis","tag-debt","tag-defense","tag-graham","tag-pledges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}