From The American Conservative:
Senate Republicans unveiled Monday their $1 trillion coronavirus stimulus package. Tucked inside is a $29.4 billion request for new defense spending, over $8 billion of which is for defense procurement and acquisition.
Critics point out that the bill does not delineate any new or urgent defense threat to justify the $30 billion request over and above the Pentagon’s ask.
Instead, the bill requests millions in new spending for things like missile defense money and F-35’s.
Here’s some of what Congress wants to spend money on:
$1,068,000,000 for additional Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft
$720,000,000 for additional Lockheed Martin C–130J aircraft
$686,000,000 for additional Lockheed Martin F–35A aircraft
$650,000,000 for wing replacements to the Boeing A–10
$375,000,000 for General Dynamics Stryker upgrades
$283,000,000 for additional Boeing AH–64 Apache Block IIIB helicopters
$243,270,000 and $76,325,000 for THAAD related items, the anti-ballistic missile defense system designed to shoot down short, medium, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles
$49,100,000 for Sonobuoys, a tactical sonar system for transmitting submarine activity
