The push to supersize Pentagon spending ratchets up

“I just think we have everything on our side on this thing,” Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, the top Senate Armed Services Republican, said. “We ought to be able to get the adequate increases that we want.” | AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

The bid for a larger Pentagon budget is gaining steam, as top lawmakers and the defense industry push to enlarge President Joe Biden’s already historically high $813 billion military spending proposal.

Defense leaders, meanwhile are signaling that they would take Congress up on having more money to fight inflation.

Rising costs, along with balancing the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with the long-term

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