WE CAN'T SAVE OUR COUNTRY UNTIL WE RID OURSELVES OF THESE PIG PARASITE LAWYERS!
We hope Joe and Hunter are proud of themselves. This is a war they made possible as they helped themselves to the goodies.
“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation (TWO GAMER LAWYERS) (WHAT ABOUT THE BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (THREE GAMER LAWYERS) corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren (GAMER LAWYER) and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (ADD GAMER LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER). BRIAN C JOONDEPH
Exclusive – ‘F*ck Eric:’ Hunter Plotted to Betray Key Family Business Partner Expected to Cooperate in GOP House Probe
Hunter Biden plotted in 2019 to betray the family’s top financial lieutenant Eric Schwerin amid their crumbling relationship, built upon an off-the-books business arrangement, text messages obtained by Breitbart News from Hunter’s laptop reveal.
Hunter’s damaged relationship with Schwerin is notable because Schwerin is expected to “soon” provide revealing documents about the Biden family business to Republican House investigators, according to the House Oversight Committee. It is unknown what information he may provide in the wake of his deteriorated relationship with Hunter.
Schwerin is a powerful figure in the Biden family business. He shared bank accounts with Hunter and President Joe Biden and was president of Rosemont Seneca Partners, a fund created by Hunter and several associates that created business deals in Russia, Ukraine, China, and Romania. Schwerin also maintained guest lists for White House functions and negotiated the divorce settlement with Hunter’s first wife, Kathleen.
Despite Schwerin’s close relationship with the family, Hunter’s text messages in 2018 begin to show a deep distrust of Schwerin and his involvement in the family’s affairs, in which Hunter apparently owed Schwerin money. Their relationship seemingly became so poor that Hunter announced Schwerin was his “worst enemy…And everyone knows it.” By 2019, their relationship had deteriorated to the point that Hunter hatched a plot to cut Schwerin out of an ongoing off-the-books business arrangement.
On February 3, 2019, Hunter conspired with fellow Biden family business partners Jeff Cooper and Devon Archer to cut Schwerin out of a then-current Biden family business arrangement and to replace him with Cooper and Archer. It is unknown if the plot was ever carried out.
Cooper, an old friend and partner of the Biden family who flew on Air Force Two to meet Mexican business associates, had a prior interest with Hunter in Eudora Global, which yielded the president’s son a 2015 gain of $300,000. Archer, a second longtime business partner of the family, was also an instrumental family business associate until he was sentenced to prison in 2020 for a defrauding scheme.
Hunter, texting Cooper and Archer in a group chat, proposed dividing his current business arrangement with Schwerin into thirds and giving Cooper and Archer each one part, keeping one third for himself. Hunter also noted he could cut Schwerin out of the deal because the current agreement had “no contract or any documentation to the affect [sic].” In the text message, Hunter used the infamous acronym “BD” to name the “Biden family” business:
I won [own] 100% of BD ill sell you and D 33% apiece and we run these deals through the BD. Whomever the broker is now can easily switch his license to our BD. I get someone to replace Eric who isnclaiming 33% with no contract or any documentation to the affect and holding my money from Eudora and other shit as leverage to get me to give allmyequity to him in return for the 33
Months before seeking to cut Schwerin out of the business arrangement, Hunter had made it clear to close confidants that he did not trust Schwerin or his business acumen.
On December 20, 2018, Hunter told his assistant Katie Dodge that Schwerin was his “worst enemy” and whined he owed him “30% of my income” for apparently ten years. The text relates to Hunter’s apparent frustration about Schwerin’s continued involvement in the family business.
“He is literally my worst enemy and I have no enemies. And everyone knows it,” Hunter said, upset about unpaid bills:
And by the way Devon has never not got his piece or Burisma, Eric has never been removed from any accounts and has 30% of my income through the debts he says are 30% his responsibility but I pay %100. Send every bill in any way connected to the business for past 10 years and ask Eric for 33% of the total. For real — final job please. That includes salaries ADP all credit cards -the whole thing. That way I can transfer him ownership of the BD of which he owns 0%
Hunter’s frustration with Schwerin was again evident on December 20, 2018, when he blamed him for an inaccurate tax bill. Hunter told Kathleen, his first wife, that his tax bill was not accurate because the “Bill is going off information from Eric that is not accurate at all.”
“My tax returns aren’t completed,” Hunter claimed.
A few days prior, Hunter accused Schwerin of leaving him with a tax bill “hanging over my business.” Texting Hallie Biden, his brother’s widow turned his own lover, Hunter noted on December 14, 2018, that his financial position was poor amid “a tax bill that Eric left hanging over my business,” even as Joe Biden was “running for president”:
You’re right Hallie and I find myself (because I’ve chosen to alienate all my friends and family and employees and you and the kids and my kids etc..) very alone in dealing with rebuilding an income that can support an enormous alimony and my kids costs and myself, dealing with the aftermath of the abduction and likely assassination (that’s what NYT’s suspects) of my business partner the richest man in the world, the arrest and conviction of my client the chief of intelligence of the people’s republic of China by the US government, the retaliation of the Chinese in the ouster and arrest of US suspected CIA operatives inside China, my suspected involvement in brokering a deal with Vladimir Putin directly for the largest sale of oil gas assets inside Russia to China, a tax bill that Eric left hanging over my business and … And Dads running for president
Hunter’s outbursts of frustration with Eric were not confined to his inner circle. Hunter even cursed Schwerin in a private text to Andrew Schwartz, the chief communications officer at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
“Had lunch with Eric yesterday and told him that your dad can count on me. Eric said he would put me in touch with your dad’s comms people,” Schwartz told Hunter on November 30, 2018.
Hunter replied, “Fuck Eric … seriously … but yes, do anything you want to do if…”
Hunter’s broken relationship with Eric comes as the House Oversight Committee in February requested documents and communications from Hunter, James Biden, and Schwerin. While Hunter has refused to comply, Schwerin’s attorney has told the committee Schwerin will cooperate with Comer’s request.
“We have received correspondence from the attorneys representing Hunter Biden and James Biden. Oversight Committee staff will be in communication with them about Chairman Comer’s request,” a House Oversight committee spokesperson told Breitbart News on Wednesday. “We are also in contact with Eric Schwerin’s attorney and expect him to start producing documents to the Oversight Committee soon.”
Wednesday was the deadline set by the committee for Schwerin and James and Hunter Biden to comply with demands to disclose a host of both classified and unclassified documents, records, and communications between business associates and family members, including Joe Biden. The records request included the following people and entities:
- Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.;
- Robert Hunter Biden or any known company or entity associated with Robert Hunter Biden, including Rosemont Seneca, Owasco, Hudson West, Bohai Harvest, Skaneateles, Burisma, Eudora, and any CEFC company or entity, including the CEFC China Energy Company;
- James Biden or the Lion Hall Group LLC;
- Sara Biden;
- Catherine Dodge;
- Joan Mayer or Joan Peugh;
- Devon Archer;
- Robert Walker;
- Vuk Jeremic; and
- Payments to Lunden Roberts from any Rosemont Seneca bank account.
It is unclear what information Schwerin will convey to the committee as it investigates the Biden family for nine potential violations, including money laundering and wire fraud.
As of Wednesday, Republican probes have been stonewalled by Hunter, the Treasury Department, and former FBI “point man” Timothy Thibault, who allegedly “improperly” “shut down” a probe into Hunter’s laptop that is likely unrelated to the ongoing criminal probe concerning possible tax fraud by the president’s son. In addition, the Treasury Department denied the Committee’s request in January to disclose 150 suspicious reports flagged by U.S. banks concerning Biden family business transactions, causing Comer to threaten a subpoena.
In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism.
Breitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris’s investigative work at the New York Post on the Hunter Biden “laptop from Hell” also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing even to have a 10 percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave
Elon Musk Gets Up and Ends Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and Obama’s Career to Jail 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaLHhRU1WUA
THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY
Jesse Watters Primetime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8XJzeGnU2Q
“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation (TWO GAMER LAWYERS) (WHAT ABOUT THE BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (THREE GAMER LAWYERS) corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren (GAMER LAWYER) and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (ADD GAMER LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER). BRIAN C JOONDEPH
Since Biden’s inauguration, the University of Pennsylvania has disclosed at least $14 million in donations from China or Hong Kong, the Free Beacon reported last week. The names of these donors have yet to be disclosed by the Department of Education, breaking the precedent of prior administrations which published foreign donor names in a public database.
GOP Wants to Know Why UPenn Saw Surge in Foreign Donations After it Opened Biden Think Tank
Foreign funding to UPenn tripled in the two years after the school teamed up with Biden
President Joe Biden (L) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R)
January 25, 2023
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is pressing President Joe Biden's secretary of state Antony Blinken for details on the sudden surge in foreign donations to the University of Pennsylvania after the establishment of the Penn Biden Center, where Blinken served as managing director.
The inquiry, led by HFAC chairman Michael McCaul (R., Texas), could shed light on the Penn Biden Center’s funding and whether think tank officials had any involvement with the university’s solicitation of foreign donors. Foreign funding to the University of Pennsylvania tripled in the two years after the school teamed up with Biden to launch the Penn Biden Center in 2017, with most of that money—$61 million—coming from China, the Washington Free Beacon first reported in 2021.
The donations "raise questions about the center’s ties to—or benefits derived from—that funding, interactions you or others had with the donors, and whether People’s Republic of China (PRC) linked individuals ever entered the center and came within close proximity of classified U.S. intelligence information," McCaul wrote in a letter to Blinken on Tuesday.
The Penn Biden Center has been under scrutiny after federal investigators discovered that classified documents from Biden’s vice presidency were being stored at the think tank’s offices in Washington, D.C., as well as at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Del.
McCaul asked Blinken to disclose his "involvement in fundraising activities for the Center or the University of Pennsylvania (including donor outreach/engagement), and whether you had knowledge of donations to the university by any PRC persons/sources," as well as a list of all "PRC persons and/or their representatives you met with while employed at the Center."
"Were you involved in meetings/engagements with foreign persons who had made or went on to make donations to the University of Pennsylvania or the Penn Biden Center?" he asked.
McCaul also asked Blinken for information on the classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center and whether any of these records originated from the State Department.
"The Foreign Affairs Committee is concerned about the national security and foreign policy implications of classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement," wrote McCaul.
The University of Pennsylvania told the Free Beacon this month that no foreign donations were earmarked for the Penn Biden Center, and the think tank was financed by general university funds. The Penn Biden Center employed many of Biden’s top foreign policy aides before they joined the administration, including Pentagon policy chief Colin Kahl, U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Michael Carpenter, and U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations Jeffrey Prescott.
Since Biden’s inauguration, the University of Pennsylvania has disclosed at least $14 million in donations from China or Hong Kong, the Free Beacon reported last week. The names of these donors have yet to be disclosed by the Department of Education, breaking the precedent of prior administrations which published foreign donor names in a public database.
The Penn Biden Center is also under scrutiny for hosting events for other UPenn groups, including a pro-China-engagement bootcamp for congressional staffers in June, where attendees were able to walk around the D.C. offices unmonitored, the Free Beacon reported on Tuesday.
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JUST IN: Grassley Confronts Garland About Hunter Biden's Potential Criminal Activity
THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY ALWAYS HAS SEC OF TREASURY YELLEN TO PROTECT THEIR 150 SHADY BANK WIRE TRANSFERS.
Treasury Department accused of obstructing Biden probe
So Hunter Biden's need to take baksheesh undercut U.S. security interests, left Ukraine a corruption-soaked mess unfit for NATO membership, and opened the gates wide for Russia to move in on Ukraine. Ukraine was too corrupt to be a member of NATO, yet Western interests were knee-deep in perpetrating that corruption and reaping big dollars for themselves.
Way to go, Joe. Biden family corruption was one of many reasons why Ukraine couldn't get into NATO and secure the Article 5 protections it needed to deter Russia. Now it's fighting alone and hoping it can defeat the Russian juggernaut, which is only just beginning. Whether Putin intends to stop just there is anyone's guess. He's not in a friendly mood right now and has the wherewithal to use his oil earnings to wreak untold havoc on the West. Is Hunter enjoying his money now? We know that no prosecutor seems to be able to stop him.
We hope Joe and Hunter are proud of themselves. This is a war they made possible as they helped themselves to the goodies.
Hunter’s Criminal Defense Lawyer Exits After ‘Unease and Dissent’ Plague Defense Team
Hunter Biden’s high-powered criminal defense lawyer Joshua Levy is reportedly no longer working for the president’s son after “unease and dissent” plagued the legal defense team, which consisted of at least four lawyers.
Levy, who was hired to work on opposing congressional investigations that seek to reveal the complexities of the family’s business schemes, is no longer representing the infamous Biden family business member, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
Levy has removed himself from the case, reportedly due to infighting within Hunter’s legal team and specifically with Abbe Lowell, who was hired in December to defend Hunter and the Biden family from nine congressional probes, including money laundering and wire fraud. In the past, Lowell has represented high-profile individuals engulfed in political scandals, such as Bill Clinton and Jared Kushner.
Levy was reportedly discontented with Lowell’s legal strategies and feared that his tactics could flop. In February, Lowell was a part of the effort to send Rudy Giuliani, Tony Bobulinski, and 12 others “litigation hold” letters to preserve “Laptop from Hell” records, a move seen by some critics as a public relations tactic to change the troubling narrative for the Biden family.
Mike Davis, founder and president of the pro-Trump Article III Project, told Breitbart News those letters were a “desperate, frivolous, and laughable” effort that would hurt the family’s legal position because the lawsuit will lead to discovery, a legal process by which Hunter would be deposed on camera.
The Times reported on why Hunter initially hired Levy:
President Biden’s personal lawyer, Bob Bauer, had recommended Mr. Levy for the job. But Mr. Levy had clashed with Kevin Morris, a lawyer and close adviser to Hunter Biden who has lent him money to pay his back taxes and some other bills, according to a person familiar with the strategy. Mr. Morris and Hunter Biden brought on Mr. Lowell late last year, prompting Mr. Levy’s departure.
Lowell’s involvement in Hunter’s defense has not only forced the exit of Levy but has also triggered infighting with attorney Chris Clark, another high-profile attorney who leads Hunter’s criminal defense. Clark’s professional history includes working as a partner at the same Washington, DC, law firm where Rep. Liz Cheney’s husband works. The firm’s biography of Clark says he represents Hunter in the “grand jury investigation regarding tax issues.”
“Chris Clark, the lead criminal defense lawyer representing Mr. Biden in the Justice Department investigation, has kept Mr. Lowell at a distance in dealing with that matter,” the Times reported. With Clark keeping “a distance,” and Lowell and Levy’s departure, Hunter’s very expensive legal team has begun to crack just months into the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the Biden family business.
In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism.
Breitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris’s investigative work at the New York Post on the Hunter Biden “laptop from Hell” also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing even to have a 10 percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
Pentagon Investigates, Gives All Clear over Ukraine Fraud Allegations
There is no evidence any of the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars spent on weapons and aid sent to Ukraine has been lost to corruption or diverted into criminal hands, the Pentagon’s inspector general said Tuesday, before adding investigations are still at an early stage.
The assurance came after members of Congress persistently questioned how closely the U.S. is tracking its aid to ensure it is not subject to fraud.
AP reports Robert P. Storch was pressed by House members several times about any fraud findings. He said a number of tips and allegations have come in to a new hotline, but there have been “limited findings” to date, with many reports pending.
Storch, who was testifying with other Pentagon leaders before the House Armed Services Committee, repeatedly qualified his remarks by saying he did not want to talk about investigations that have not yet been completed.
His comments came on the back of months of claim and counterclaim regarding the potential for corruption to the very highest levels of the Ukraine government, as Breitbart News reported.
In January a string of senior Ukraine government officials were sacked or resigned amidst a flurry of corruption claims, with those shown the door accused of taking illicit payments as the Ministry of Defence allegedly signed overinflated military contracts.
Deputy Defence Minister Vyacheslav Shapovalov, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Kyrylo Tymoshenko and Deputy Prosecutor General Oleksiy Simonenko were among the senior Ukraine government officials who departed.
The AP report said Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, the Republican committee chairman, observed Congress has appropriated more than $100 billion in military, economic and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine and NATO allies.
Of that, the U.S. has doled out more than $75 billion so far including nearly $32 billion in Pentagon weapons and training to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion of its neighbor a year ago.
File/Ground personnel unload weapons, including Javelin anti-tank missiles, and other military hardware delivered on a National Airlines plane by the United States military at Boryspil Airport near Kyiv on January 25, 2022 in Boryspil, Ukraine. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
“These are unprecedented numbers. And it requires an unprecedented level of oversight by Congress,” Rogers said.
The Pentagon has a “robust program” to track the aid as it crosses the border into Ukraine and to keep tabs on it once it is there, depending on the sensitivity of each weapons system, Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said Tuesday at a press briefing.
There’s also a small team of Americans in Ukraine working with Ukrainians to do physical inspections when possible, but also virtual inspections when needed, since those teams are not going to the front lines, Ryder said.
A recent report from Transparency International found Ukraine ranked as the second most corrupt country in Europe, losing only to Russia, which ranked first. Ukraine also ranked as the 116th most corrupt country in the world, although it rose one rank since 2021.
GOP Hawks Say the Only Thing Cut From the Pentagon Will Be 'Wokeness'
'I can't think of a worse time to cut defense spending than now,' Rep. Mike Gallagher says
Congressional defense hawks say the only cuts to the defense budget that will be considered will be to "woke" programs, saying cuts to the Pentagon would be disastrous as the United States faces down a Russian war in Ukraine and Chinese threats to invade Taiwan.
"As Russia wages war on Ukraine and China eyes a similar move on Taiwan, I can't think of a worse time to cut defense spending than now," Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, which oversees America's $400 billion defense budget, told the Washington Free Beacon. Gallagher and other Armed Services Committee leaders, including chairman Mike Rogers (R., Ala.), told the Washington Free Beacon there is zero appetite among the majority of House Republicans to roll back the Pentagon's budget.
As part of concessions to a small group of Republican holdouts during the House speakership fight, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) reportedly agreed to some $130 billion in spending cuts that are expected to impact even traditionally insulated agencies like the Defense Department. The agreement has given rise to concerns the Pentagon's budget could be frozen in place, preventing it from expanding war-fighting priorities amid rising demands due to the war in Ukraine.
McCarthy has said he would only cut the Defense Department's spending on "wokeism" and other projects not impacting war-fighting capabilities. Others, such as Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), said "everything has to be on the table" as the 2023 budget is made. But those with the most power over the Pentagon's budget said they will prevent any cuts that negatively impact an already strained fighting force.
The Biden administration's push to foster a more sensitive environment across the U.S. military has been under Republican scrutiny since the president took office. Hawks have pilloried the introduction of critical race theory books in the Navy as well as mandated gender identity trainings implemented by the Army and Navy.
Republican defense leaders who spoke to the Free Beacon said they see a pathway to compromise with far-right budget hawks. As McCarthy recently proposed, military programs seen as promoting a "woke" agenda, such as diversity and inclusion training, could provide a pathway to satiate members advocating defense cuts as well as those trying to keep the military well equipped to face down Russia, China, and Iran.
"On the House Armed Services Committee—we are laser-focused on the threats we face and the capabilities we need to defeat them," Rogers told the Free Beacon. "We are examining programs to determine if they actually provide the capabilities we need to defeat the threats we face. If they don't, they'll be cut. However, maintaining overmatch with China requires modernizing our military, and we cannot shy away from that investment."
Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), also an Armed Services Committee member, offered a similar analysis. Banks, like other GOP hawks, said wide-ranging defense cuts will embolden China and other U.S. enemies.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping "is now planning a visit to Moscow," Banks said, pointing to increased ties between China and Russia. U.S. president Joe Biden "has fomented chaos around the globe," Banks said, "and House Republicans need to be laser-focused on investing in our military and disentangling our defense industrial base from our greatest adversary."
Banks said he "will never vote to cut defense spending, and a large majority of Republicans are in the same boat." But the congressman also said there "are plenty of budget cuts I support that would strengthen our military, like defunding Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the [Defense Department]."
"Wokeness is weakness, and defunding these far-left ideologies will boost cohesion, retention, and morale and make our military stronger," Banks said.
There are concerns that with a slim Republican majority in the House, Republican defectors could team up with dovish Democrats to force defense cuts. "There are places I may actually agree with Republicans on defense cuts," Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) said last month. "If they're going to look at that and make certain cuts, then let's have that conversation."
"What we saw in the speaker fight was that a relatively small number of Republicans are willing to hold the process hostage out of the desire to make dramatic cuts in the budget," Rep. Adam Smith (D., Wash.), the Armed Services Committee's former chairman, told the Hill last month. "So regardless of what McCarthy did or did not promise, that same group of people can do the same thing on the budget, on the appropriations bills, on the defense bill."
It is unlikely that any Democrat would sign on to cuts that target liberal initiatives such as the DEI office Banks has in his sights, and Republicans think they have a better chance to bring the party together on redirecting funds toward war-fighting rather than making any cuts.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R., Fla.), a combat veteran who serves on the Armed Services Committee, said all flanks of the Republican Party could unite to redirect Pentagon funding to critical war-fighting programs that increase America’s ability to confront China and other threats, such as those posed by Iran in the Middle East.
"I'm in favor of identifying wasteful programs within the [Defense Department] and redirecting those funds to urgent priorities, but we cannot propose broad spending cuts on the backs of our troops," Waltz told the Free Beacon. "We need to ensure our military has the capability to counter China's massive military buildup, Iran's growing nuclear capabilities, the emerging terrorist threat in Afghanistan, and much more."
There are also concerns that potential defense cuts could interfere with efforts to modernize America's military, which has lagged behind similar efforts undertaken by China and other nations in recent years. Military production lines in the United States also have been strained by the ongoing war in Ukraine, where America is supplying a great amount of hardware. Potential cuts to the defense budget could exacerbate these supply-line issues.
"A strong budget ensures that our military forces are always capable of safeguarding the homeland, protecting our national interests, strengthening foreign alliances and partnerships, rapidly modernizing our forces to counter emerging threats, and supporting service-member families and veterans," Rep. Joe Wilson (R., S.C.), another Armed Services Committee member, told the Free Beacon.
Rebeccah Heinrichs, a national security analyst with the Hudson Institute think tank, said the American military needs hardware now more than ever, particularly if it is to engage in a showdown with China in the Pacific region.
"In an idyllic world at peace," Heinrichs said, "we could do the hard acquisition reform and gut all of the butter out of a budget that's supposed to be strictly guns, so to speak. But we are not in that world."
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