Biden’s 2024 budget motto: make “woke” not war.
According to a report from The Free Beacon, Biden’s 2024 budget is more concerned with woke waste than actually protecting America and Taiwan from Chinese aggression at sea.
During a time of undeniably heightened tensions between the U.S. and China —spy balloons, CCP-sanctioned hacking, patent theft, threats aimed at U.S. state officials —President Biden, in his infinite wisdom, has decided to retire nearly a dozen naval ships prematurely and shut down missile systems that keep China in check.
What?
“By taking these ships out of action, the Navy would lose more than 600 vertical launch missile systems—a missile capability that serves as the primary deterrent to Chinese military attacks in the Pacific,” according to congressional research provided to the Washington Free Beacon.
“The Biden Administration’s defense budget would hollow out our fleet and scrap Navy radars and missile systems we desperately need to deter China,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the Senate Armed Services Committee’s ranking member, told the Free Beacon. “Prematurely retiring our ships sends exactly the wrong signal to China as they continue to build their own Navy at a historic pace.”
Biden’s navy budget isn’t even in accordance with the law, according to the Free Beacon.
“The Navy currently has 294 battle force ships, far short of the 355 it is required to have by law. Biden’s budget would further reduce this number, according to information about the White House’s 2023 budget proposal codified by Wicker’s office.”
And while Mr. Biden isn’t really concerned with commanding a right good crew, China is stepping up its ship-making production, modernizing its outdated fleet. Xi is pushing for more than 400 new ships on the water by 2025.
“[The Biden administration] seems to be under the illusion that the PRC will be deterred by strongly worded government reports and joint pressers with allies,” says Rebeccah Heinrichs, a national security analyst with the Hudson Institute think tank.
“Navy and Marine leaders have said what they need to do that, and this White House has decided they know better,” Heinrichs added. “There is no way around the fact that building the Navy this country needs to deter China, and to win if war comes, will cost Americans money.”
But the Democrats remain delusional.
“The president’s budget is set to be a bold, optimistic, and serious proposal for strengthening our economy and creating opportunities to climb into the middle class, as well as helping people stay there once they get in the middle class,” says Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
That’s wonderful, Mr. Schumer —but to crib wrestling great Hulk Hogan: whatcha gonna do when China comes for you, brother?
