{"id":806869,"date":"2021-09-23T16:44:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=806869"},"modified":"2021-09-23T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:44:07","slug":"dems-plan-to-scuttle-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-plan-to-scuttle-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Plan To Scuttle Space Force"},"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\">12<\/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-plan-to-scuttle-space-force%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=806869&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=\"28.309644670051\">\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\">Jared Huffman, Rashida Tlaib aim to &#8216;abolish&#8217; military branch<\/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\/09\/GettyImages-1213155435_736x514-736x514-1.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\/09\/GettyImages-1213155435_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GettyImages-1213155435_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GettyImages-1213155435_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\tThe Space Force flag \/ 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 September 23, 2021 4:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"72.232259687972\">\n<p>House Democrats on Wednesday introduced a measure in the 2022 defense budget&nbsp;to eliminate the Space Force.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jared Huffman (D., Calif.) led a resolution, cosigned by fellow Democratic representatives Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Maxine Waters (Calif.), Mark Pocan (Wis.), and J\u00e9sus Garc\u00eda (Calif.), to &#8220;abolish&#8221; America&#8217;s newest military branch. The measure received support from the Koch-funded National Taxpayers Union and radical anti-war groups such as Peace Action and Demand Progress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since its creation under the former Trump administration, the Space Force has threatened longstanding peace and flagrantly wasted billions of taxpayer dollars,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/huffman.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/huffman-introduces-bill-to-abolish-wasteful-space-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Huffman. &#8220;It&#8217;s time we turn our attention back to where it belongs: addressing urgent domestic and international priorities like battling COVID-19, climate change, and growing economic inequality. Our mission must be to support the American people, not spend billions on the militarization of space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Huffman and his allies are far-left on the vital issue of defense spending. Pocan in March&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lee.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/lee-pocan-and-auchincloss-lead-50-members-urging-biden-to-cut-defense-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed<\/a> a major cut to the defense budget, but fellow Democratic caucus members shot it down. National security officials and experts have called President Biden&#8217;s proposed defense budget insufficient to meet the challenges posed by Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>The House Armed Services Committee this month approved Republicans and some moderate Democrats&#8217; plan to increase the Biden defense budget by $24 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The push to defund the Space Force comes as China increasingly threatens the United States.&nbsp;Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/air-force-chief-china-acquiring-nuclear-first-strike-ability-to-attack-from-space\/\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Monday that China is developing means to bombard American targets from space.<\/p>\n<p>China has launched satellites and a space station,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/chinese-space-station-a-looming-threat-to-us-experts-say\/\">threatening<\/a>&nbsp;American dominance in space. Simulated war drills&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/a37158827\/us-military-failed-miserably-in-taiwan-invasion-wargame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">show<\/a> that Beijing would likely exploit American vulnerabilities in space as a first move in a takeover of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Jared Huffman, Rashida Tlaib aim to &#8216;abolish&#8217; military branch  The Space Force flag \/ Getty Images  Jack Beyrer \u2022 September 23, 2021 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806869","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=806869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}