Former Vice President Joe Biden said this week that, if elected president, he doesn’t foresee major reductions in the U.S. defense budget as the military refocuses its attention to potential threats from “near-peer” powers such as China and Russia.
Trump argued for drawing down the number of U.S. troops fighting overseas and boosting up those deployed along the southern U.S. border in his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Even members of Trump's own party were shocked to hear him include cancelling military exercises and possible troop drawdowns during the North Korea summit.
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