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(AP) \u2014 The top-ranking Republican on a Senate committee that oversees the military is calling for a \u201cgenerational investment\u201d in America\u2019s defense, saying aggressive and significant spending increases are necessary to deter coordinated threats from U.S. adversaries like Russia, Iran and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told The Associated Press that he will seek an additional $55 billion in defense spending over the limits that were forged in the deal to suspend the nation\u2019s debt<\/a> limit a year ago. Wicker explained his position in global terms, saying there has \u201cnever been such a level of cooperation and coordination among an axis of aggressors\u201d that aims to challenge U.S. dominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan lays down a significant marker for Senate Republicans as they enter into a new round of budget fights with Democrats in the heat of a closely fought election year. The White House has proposed $850 billion in defense spending<\/a>, adhering to the debt limit deal by proposing a 1% increase from the previous year. That plan is unlikely to keep pace with inflation and would seek to reduce the military\u2019s costs by retiring older ships and aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wicker acknowledged it would be \u201ca hill to climb\u201d to convince Congress to break from the spending caps at a time of deep political upheaval. Washington is still grappling with divisions over support for Ukraine, the aftershocks of two long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan<\/a> and a presidential election<\/a> between two presumptive candidates \u2014 Biden and Republican Donald Trump \u2014 who espouse vastly different visions of America\u2019s role abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Wicker said the nation has no choice. \u201cWe would be very foolish on a national survival basis to adhere to that when it comes to national defense,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While GOP defense hawks have long advocated for robust defense spending, Wicker\u2019s plan goes a step further, calling for a broad shift in the U.S. defense posture that would amount to a reshuffling of national priorities. Under his proposal, the military would eventually consume 5% of America\u2019s gross domestic product \u2014 or total economic output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense spending when measured as a portion of GDP is currently about 3% and has been declining since the height of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It has not reached above 5% since the early 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in the 1980s and early 1990s, Wicker said, \u201cnobody took a chance against the United States because we were powerful enough to keep the peace. We are simply not anywhere near that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think that the fact that we\u2019re in a new Cold War is self-evident,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wicker\u2019s full plan is laid out in a paper he has been working on for the last year. In it, he makes the case for crafting a new generation of weaponry, pointing to Russia\u2019s moves to expand its territory in Europe and China\u2019s attempts to show increasing dominance in parts of the Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closer ties between China and Russia were underscored earlier this month by a visit between leaders Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping<\/a>. The two-day visit<\/a> \u2014 Putin\u2019s first trip abroad after being inaugurated to a fifth term in office \u2014 reflected a growing partnership between the two nations, an alliance grounded in support for authoritarian regimes and dominance in their respective regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China has given diplomatic support<\/a> to Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine and emerged as a top export market for Russian oil and gas, helping fill the Kremlin\u2019s war coffers for the ongoing offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wicker said the high-level meeting between Putin and Xi \u201cought to be a wake up call.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said in his proposal that the U.S. faces \u201cthe most dangerous threat environment since World War II\u201d and urges a national war footing appropriate for a long, drawn-out conflict with a major world power. For Wicker, that encompasses everything from addressing deferred maintenance on U.S. military facilities that don\u2019t have the right voltage on power outlets to preparing for nuclear weaponry in space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, the spending increases are likely to be viewed skeptically by lawmakers wary of growing the defense budget, which already dominates annual discretionary funding. The legislation to suspend the nation\u2019s debt limit passed Congress with strong bipartisan support and aimed to limit federal budget growth to 1% for the next six years, although the spending caps were only mandatory through this year\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The House Armed Services Committee earlier this month approved with near-unanimous support an $884 billion proposal for the annual defense authorization bill, keeping within the spending caps but shifting funding towards specific military programs. Yet Senate Democrats are likely to resist further spending cuts to other government programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senate Armed Services Committee is set to craft the annual military authorization bill next month, but the chairman, Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, has not publicly released the spending amount that he will propose. Wicker said that he had been in contact with Reed, as well as top Democratic appropriators, about the plan, but their level of support was not clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, defense hawks like Wicker are navigating the shifting politics<\/a> of defense spending in their own party under Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d brand of foreign policy. Earlier this year, a $95 billion package of foreign aid<\/a> for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan faced heavy resistance from a large portion of congressional Republicans, even though much of the funds would be spent buying equipment and ammunition from U.S.-based defense manufacturers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, however, has been vocal about countering those within his party who want to push the U.S. towards a more isolationist stance. And Wicker said there was \u201can opportunity\u201d to win broad support for redoubling U.S. efforts in the Pacific because congressional Republicans are still supportive of countering China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he works to convince Congress to rethink defense spending, Wicker said he was modeling his effort on the push that former Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, made in 2017 as he tried to dramatically increase defense spending. That effort was mostly unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Wicker expressed confidence that this time can be different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With China\u2019s military strength dramatically growing and Russia launching the largest land invasion in Europe since World War II, the difference between 2017 and now is \u201cthe reality on the ground,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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