{"id":35595,"date":"2020-07-29T05:08:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=35595"},"modified":"2020-07-29T05:08:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:08:38","slug":"surprise-29-4b-in-pentagon-pork-tucked-into-gop-relief-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/29\/surprise-29-4b-in-pentagon-pork-tucked-into-gop-relief-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! $29.4B in Pentagon Pork Tucked Into GOP Relief Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The American Conservative<\/a>:<\/i><\/p>\n

Senate Republicans unveiled Monday their $1 trillion coronavirus stimulus package<\/a>. Tucked inside is a $29.4 billion request<\/a> for new defense spending, over $8 billion of which is for defense procurement and acquisition.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Instead, the bill requests millions in new spending for things like missile defense money and F-35’s.<\/p>\n

Here’s some<\/a> of what Congress wants to spend money on:<\/p>\n

$1,068,000,000<\/a> for additional Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft<\/p>\n

$720,000,000<\/a> for additional Lockheed Martin C–130J aircraft<\/p>\n

$686,000,000<\/a> for additional Lockheed Martin F–35A aircraft<\/p>\n

$650,000,000<\/a> for wing replacements to the Boeing A–10<\/p>\n

$375,000,000<\/a> for General Dynamics Stryker upgrades<\/p>\n

$283,000,000<\/a> for additional Boeing AH–64 Apache Block IIIB helicopters<\/p>\n

$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<\/p>\n

$49,100,000<\/a> for Sonobuoys, a tactical sonar system for transmitting submarine activity<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-35595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35597,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35595\/revisions\/35597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35595"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}