Left Seethes at Biden’s Big Defense Budget: ‘It’s a Mistake’
Progressives have grown increasingly accustomed to disappointment with the Biden administration—and now a proposed increase in Department of Defense and law enforcement spending are causing them to air their grievances anew with just months left before the 2022 election.
President Biden on Monday released a proposal for $813 billion in funding for the Department of Defense, an increase of roughly $30 billion from last year’s defense budget that progressives already hated. He’s also proposing more than $32 billion in new spending to expand law enforcement and combat crime.
A president’s budget proposal is generally not what ends up being funded, but budget proposals are seen as a way of signaling the priorities of an administration over the next fiscal year.