Sen. Kevin Cramer on Trump’s Over $1T Budget for Defense: ‘I’ve Encouraged Him to Go That High’

RUSH EXCERPT:CRAMER: "That’s a great question because one of the things and by the way, I would support one and a half trillion, I encouraged him to go back hi and the reason, it’s not that we are leapfrogging suddenly into a spear spending, we are filling in from years of neglect and it’s important for the taxpayer to understand 40 or 50 year peace dividend the country has taken full cost a lot to rebuild because not only do we need more munitions and feeling stockpiles but we have old systems, and North Dakota carrying big bombs, they are 60 and 70 years old in some cases, so we are modernizing and building the b21, next generation bombers and same with f47 next generation, fighter jet so you got two things at the same time and it will cost a lot to get there so we have modernization effort which I think is vertical. We have been holding on to legacy systems while adversaries, particularly China, have been investing heavily into new systems and to include nuclear capable missiles, long-range and nuclear weapons so we will doubt of a deep hole and with regard to ballistic missiles, three we also have — those are 60, 70 years old and long pastor lifecycle, they’ve done a good job maintaining them but we are replacing them with the new so we are at a moment where we are catching up to years of neglect."

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Sen. Kevin Cramer on Trump’s Over $1T Budget for Defense: ‘I’ve Encouraged Him to Go That High’‘We are filling in from years of neglect’News & Politics,InternationalRUSH EXCERPT:CRAMER: "That’s a great question because one of the things and by the way, I would support one and a half trillion, I encouraged him to go back hi and the reason, it’s not that we are leapfrogging suddenly into a spear spending, we are filling in from years of neglect and it’s important for the taxpayer to understand 40 or 50 year peace dividend the country has taken full cost a lot to rebuild because not only do we need more munitions and feeling stockpiles but we have old systems, and North Dakota carrying big bombs, they are 60 and 70 years old in some cases, so we are modernizing and building the b21, next generation bombers and same with f47 next generation, fighter jet so you got two things at the same time and it will cost a lot to get there so we have modernization effort which I think is vertical. We have been holding on to legacy systems while adversaries, particularly China, have been investing heavily into new systems and to include nuclear capable missiles, long-range and nuclear weapons so we will doubt of a deep hole and with regard to ballistic missiles, three we also have — those are 60, 70 years old and long pastor lifecycle, they’ve done a good job maintaining them but we are replacing them with the new so we are at a moment where we are catching up to years of neglect."Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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