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However, Republicans have also since come out against cuts to defense, which makes them less likely but leaves nondefense programs vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House Appropriations Committee\u2019s top Democrat, Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, sent a letter in January to Defense Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/reagan-defense-forum\/2022\/12\/03\/austin-urges-congress-pass-a-timely-budget\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lloyd Austin<\/a> and the leaders of all other federal agencies seeking more details on the impact of fiscal cuts by House Republicans. On Monday, she posted the replies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pentagon Comptroller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2023\/03\/15\/pentagon-takes-budget-cuts-seriously-ahead-of-congressional-battles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike McCord<\/a>, in his March 17 letter, stuck up for the nondefense side, saying that even if the department was exempt from cuts, those cuts would be \u201cjust as harmful.\u201d The federal government\u2019s response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia\u2019s ongoing invasion of Ukraine<\/a> shows the value of integrating all forms of assistance, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo one agency could achieve the effects we are producing as a team, and deep cuts to any one of the agencies would undermine the effort as a whole,\u201d McCord\u2019s letter read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The State Department \u2015 which requested billions of dollars for Indo-Pacific missions and to counter Chinese influence though security, infrastructure and economic support to U.S. allies and partners around the globe \u2015 said those efforts would be hurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A rollback to FY22 levels would include a $2 billion cut to the State Department\u2019s security sector assistance budget, according to the seven-page letter from Naz Durako\u011flu and Jodi Herman, the respective legislative affairs chiefs for the department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. It\u2019s a category that includes foreign military financing for partner nations to buy American-made weaponry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSuch assistance is critical to enhancing military-to-military interoperability, training, and cooperation, as well as fighting corruption, and money-laundering,\u201d the March 17 letter read, adding that such a cut would also be like \u201copening the door for our competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the Pentagon, a rollback to FY22 levels would mean a $100 billion \u2014 or nearly 12% \u2014 budget cut, compared to Biden\u2019s FY24 budget request of $842 billion, McCord said in his three-page letter to DeLauro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Department of Defense is concerned about both the magnitude and potential method of implementing such reductions, which would have harmful and potentially devastating effects on our people, our mission and our national interests,\u201d McCord wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such cuts, he said, would upend congressionally supported efforts to stabilize the defense-industrial base and also stymie modernization efforts. Beyond that, they would mean less money for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2023\/03\/09\/inside-indo-pacific-commands-87-billion-wish-list-to-deter-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indo-Pacific Deterrence Initiative <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2023\/03\/13\/pentagon-budget-aims-to-max-munitions-production-make-multiyear-buys\/\" target=\"_blank\">proposed munitions plus-ups at the center of the FY24 request<\/a> \u2015 both aimed at deterring China in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Navy would hypothetically take a $10 billion cut, likely eliminating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2023\/02\/09\/newport-news-has-fully-staffed-attack-sub-line-after-years-of-delays\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia-class submarine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/your-navy\/2023\/03\/16\/navy-will-extend-service-life-of-destroyer-arleigh-burke\/\" target=\"_blank\">DDG-51 destroyer<\/a>, and also endanger cost-saving multiyear procurement contracts, the letter read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A notional 40% cut to the nuclear triad modernization would hurt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2023\/03\/16\/b-21-first-flight-running-a-few-months-behind\/\" target=\"_blank\">B-21 bomber<\/a> production plans and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2023\/02\/10\/us-test-launches-unarmed-intercontinental-ballistic-missile\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile<\/a> program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For planned missile defense upgrades, a rollback means 50% less for space-based missile warning and ground-based midcourse missile defense \u201cat a time when our adversaries are modernizing their offensive capabilities,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSuch ill-advised politics would also have global ramifications,\u201d McCord wrote. \u201cAt a time when our allies in NATO and the Indo-Pacific region are increasing their security spending to the levels we have been advocating, a move backward on our part would send the wrong message both to allies and adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, the Coast Guard would have to cease efforts to buy the offshore patrol cutter and the polar security cutter, according to the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That in turn would \u201ccreate an operational gap and further delay of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/frozen-pathways\/2021\/08\/27\/norway-sets-timeline-to-deploy-sub-hunting-aircraft-in-the-arctic\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. presence in the polar regions<\/a> and reduce the ability detect, deter, prevent, and disrupt terrorist attacks and other criminal acts in the U.S. maritime domain as well as our National Defense Strategy,\u201d the letter 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