President Biden’s Pick For Deputy Secretary Of Defense Raises The Prospect Of Defense Cuts

 

Politico: Hicks raises prospect of defense cuts 

 * Joe Biden’s pick for the Pentagon’s No. 2 position telegraphs looming budget fights over ships, nukes and more. 

‘WE CONTINUE TO OVERINVEST’: Kathleen Hicks, the nominee for deputy secretary of Defense, sailed through her confirmation hearing on Tuesday, expounding on a series of thorny debates that are likely to animate her tenure if she is the first woman to be confirmed as the Pentagon’s No. 2, our colleagues Connor O’Brien and Lara Seligman report. 

She also threw cold water on the eleventh-hour Navy shipbuilding plan put forward by the Trump administration, which called for a much larger 500-ship fleet of both manned and unmanned vessels. 

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WNU Editor: I see people like Secretary of Defense Austin and nominee for Deputy Secretary Of Defense Kathleen Hicks as people who have been appointed by President Biden to manage the decline of the U.S. military and its defense budget, not to maintain and/or expand it. Kathleen Hicks made that very clear in her testimony this past Tuesday.