Wicker sees GOP budget resolution as 'opening act' for major defense surge

Wicker sees GOP budget resolution as 'opening act' for major defense surge

Senate Republicans have proposed a budget reconciliation package that would pump $150 billion into the U.S. defense topline in the coming years, with one senior GOP chairman laying out an ambitious vision for new spending and reform that he says would mirror the Reagan and Eisenhower eras. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS), in a Washington Post op-ed, today wrote that the “opening salvo” of the reconciliation package, …