{"id":577869,"date":"2021-06-30T17:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T21:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577869"},"modified":"2021-06-30T17:35:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T21:35:48","slug":"dems-aim-to-slash-vital-nuclear-missile-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-aim-to-slash-vital-nuclear-missile-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Aim to Slash Vital Nuclear Missile Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fdems-aim-to-slash-vital-nuclear-missile-program%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=577869&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--><div readability=\"27.607843137255\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Cuts would delay nuclear missile modernization<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-113644115_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-113644115_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-113644115_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-113644115_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\t Rep. John Garamendi (D., Calif.) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 June 30, 2021 5:25 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"78.237223168654\">\n<p><span>Congressional Democrats are taking aim at a crucial nuclear missile program as they prepare adjustments to the Biden administration&#8217;s defense budget request.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rep. John Garamendi (D., Calif.), the chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, <\/span>said the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent, a program pushed by both the Obama and Trump administrations to replace nuclear weapons technology in place since the Vietnam War, requires a funding pause to aid other budget priorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a matter of how we&#8217;re going to spend a very precious resource called money,&#8221; Garamendi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/democrats-want-pause-new-gbsd-icbm-for-other-military-needs-2021-6?mc_cid=a3b248490c&amp;mc_eid=69b66febf7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> <em>Insider<\/em>. &#8220;The issue of the [Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent] is under consideration\u2014that is, a pause on the [Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent]\u2014so we&#8217;ll see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>Garamendi&#8217;s comments challenge a consensus among top military officials that America&#8217;s nuclear missile technology requires serious modernization. The missile system used by the military has been in service since 1970, prompting calls for the development of its replacement, Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent. U.S. Strategic Command chief Charles Richard <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/head-of-u-s-strategic-command-blasts-gbsd-critics-minuteman-3-cannot-be-life-extended\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> in January that the current missile system must be replaced with modern technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Democrats, however, have targeted the nuclear weapon modernization program for budget cuts. Sens. Ed Markey (Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/insidedefense.com\/insider\/markey-khanna-introduce-icbm-act-stop-gbsd-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>spoken<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/theaters\/us\/stratcom-commander-calls-on-congress-to-update-us-triad-as-china-s-nuclear-program-advances-weekly-1.670518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>repeatedly<\/span><\/a><span> about their interest in pausing the project in favor of other funding priorities, such as coronavirus research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Calls for cutting the program also come as China rapidly increases its own nuclear stockpile. The <em>Washington Post<\/em> reported Wednesday that China is constructing more than 100 missile silos, and a June report revealed Beijing increased its nuclear arsenal by 30 warheads in 2020. Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) warned in a March Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that China could soon outpace the United States in its nuclear weapons systems if the Pentagon does not move fast enough.<\/p>\n<p><span>The Biden administration, meanwhile, has not yet cemented its own stance on the issue as the White House conducts a nuclear posture review of the U.S. armed forces. The Biden defense budget&#8217;s constraints, however, could force the Navy to cut funding for <\/span><span>sea-launched nuclear cruise missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Cuts would delay nuclear missile modernization  Rep. John Garamendi (D., Calif.) \/ Getty Images  Jack Beyrer \u2022 June 30, 2021 5:25 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2313785,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-113644115_736x514-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Dems Aim to Slash Vital Nuclear Missile Program","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-113644115_736x514-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Dems Aim to Slash Vital Nuclear Missile Program","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577869","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}