Pentagon’s $705 Billion Budget Boosts Nuclear Weapons Funding
- New Space Force would get $15 billion transfer from Air Force
- Trump has touted higher defense spending ahead of campaign
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The Pentagon’s $705.4 billion budget proposal for the next fiscal year would boost funding for nuclear weapons systems including intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarines and F-35 jets as well as providing more money for emerging technology research and the Space Force.
The budget proposal for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1, to be submitted to Congress on Monday, is mostly flat compared with the $712.6 billion plan approved for this year. But it shifts that funding in ways that signal President Donald Trump’s evolving priorities.