Trump, in a speech on the USS Gerald R. Ford — a $12.9 billion warship expected to be commissioned this year – urged “a great rebuilding” of the U.S. military.
(FOX)- “After years of endless budget cuts that have impaired our defenses, I am calling for one of the largest defense spending increases in history,” he said, in his first speech since his well-received address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.
With his calls for the $54 billion in new defense spending with his theme of “America First.”
“American ships will sail the seas, American planes will soar the skies, American workers will build our fleets and America’s military will ensure that even through the darkest nights, a bright and glowing sun will always shine on our nation and on our people,” he said, calling for an end to the so-called defense sequester.
He also complained that “in these troubled times our Navy is the smallest it’s been since World War I.”
“Right now our aging front-line strike fighters are often more likely to be down for maintenance than up in the sky,” he said.