US President Joe Biden will cut a military budget for $ 7 million compared with the amount that his predecessor Donald Trump is wanted. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to sources.
The agency’s interlocutors said that in the new fiscal year, Biden plans to allocate a Pentagon 715 million dollars instead of $ 722 million, who wanted to spend the Trump administration. However, due to inflation, the real difference in sums will be only 0.4 percent.
It is assumed that part of the military budget will go to environmental initiatives inside the Pentagon. At the same time, in the budget for fiscal 2022, for the first time in 10 years, it is not provided for a clear division into military and non-military expenses, so the US Congress will be able to redirect part of defense funds for other needs.
In late December, it was reported that the Biden administration plans to revise the program for the modernization of nuclear weapons. In particular, the White House took over the high-cost new intercontinental ballistic missile of ground-based base. According to the pentagon estimates, it will be necessary to spend more than 100 billion dollars to develop on its development.