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Khanna Criticizes Biden for Proposing Pentagon Budget Larger Than Trump’s

Congressman Ro Khanna of California was the first House Democrat to speak out Friday against President Joe Biden's request for a $715 billion Pentagon budget for Fiscal Year 2022, an increase from the current $704 billion level approved under former President Donald Trump.

April 9, 2021 | Source: Common Dreams | by Jake Johnson

“It’s disappointing that President Biden would propose a budget of $715 billion for the Pentagon.”

Congressman Ro Khanna of California was the first House Democrat to speak out Friday against President Joe Biden’s request for a $715 billion Pentagon budget for Fiscal Year 2022, an increase from the current $704 billion level approved under former President Donald Trump.

“At a time when his own Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, recently criticized a federal budget that is basically ‘military and pensions’ without building our productivity capability here at home, it’s disappointing that President Biden would propose a budget of $715 billion for the Pentagon, an increase of 1.6% over Trump’s $704 billion budget, instead of working toward returning to the Obama-Biden era spending levels,” Khanna said in a statement.

While applauding Biden’s proposed elimination of the overseas contingency operations (OCO) account—an off-budget war funding pool that critics have decried as a “slush fund”