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Politics : A Hard Look At Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (11289)	12/4/2017 6:12:09 PM
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Trump's military buildup still a mirage"The math just isn't there," one top general says as lawmakers and military leaders fret that competing agendas are undermining promises of a Reagan-like defense buildup. By CONNOR O’BRIEN and BRYAN BENDER 12/03/2017 03:40 PM EST .............. “What defense buildup?" remarked Katherine Blakeley, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a nonpartisan Washington think tank. “You have a professed goal of having a buildup, but I haven’t seen any kind of real engagement by the administration on … putting in the legislative groundwork to make that happen.” “To go back to a Reagan-era tagline," she added, "where’s the beef?” Others asserted that the president's own domestic agenda is likely to crowd out the spending his promises would require. .............. politico.com