House, Senate Republicans battle over possible defense cuts in effort to curb spending
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Republicans in the House and Senate have been split over whether or not the defense budget should be on the table as they look for ways to rein in federal spending.
"My goal is to get Kevin and everybody looking at the defense needs based on threats. And the threat portfolio, the threat picture, doesn’t justify being on the low end of GDP," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Punchbowl News. Graham reportedly urged House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to maintain a defense budget of at least 3.2% of the GDP. Ronn Blitzer is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics and breaking news.
"I don’t want to go backward because, when you look at the threat China [presents], we don’t have the military footprint where we need it to be," Graham told the outlet.