{"id":54086,"date":"2021-05-20T16:50:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T16:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/05\/20\/senate-rejects-republican-led-defense-boost\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:54:00","slug":"senate-rejects-republican-led-defense-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/05\/20\/senate-rejects-republican-led-defense-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate rejects defense spending \u2018parity\u2019 amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 The Senate on Thursday sank a Republican proposal meant to boost defense spending by binding Congress to equal increases to defense and nondefense spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sens. Jim Inhofe and Richard Shelby, the top Republicans on the Armed Services and Appropriations committees, offered it as an amendment to a bill to fund technological research to counter China. The proposal would have preserved the parity principle that characterized budget negotiations under yearlong statutory budget caps, which expired last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The measure needed 60 votes to pass, and it failed 44-53, mostly along party lines; three Republicans voted \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supporters succeeded in mounting a tough vote for some moderate Democrats, who Republicans need to unseat to regain control of the 50-50 Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inhofe and other Republicans have criticized President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site%3Adefensenews.com+biden+budget+percent&#038;oq=site%3Adefensenews.com+biden+&#038;aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i59l2j69i58.6176j0j1&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Biden\u2019s forthcoming defense budget request<\/a> as inadequate to counter China\u2019s growing military, and they\u2019ve argued the bipartisan China bill left out the military side of the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll the \u2018soft power\u2019 in the world will only benefit us as long as we have the hard power to back it up. 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Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said ahead of the vote. \u201cYet for all this talk about competing with China, the Biden administration\u2019s budget proposal seeks to cut defense spending, after inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., said Wednesday the proposal would surpass the 3-5 percent defense increase Republicans have sought, adding that he opposes these top-down approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think the best way to do a budget is to build it from the ground up; what do you need, what\u2019s essential, what don\u2019t you need, etc.,\u201d Reed said of the defense budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate sank a Republican proposal meant to boost defense spending by binding Congress to equal increases to defense and nondefense 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