GOP Defense Hawks Break with Trump

“President Donald Trump may have finally alienated the faction key to delivering his colossal defense budget: Republican hawks,” Politico reports.

“The president will need almost unanimous support from Senate and House Republicans to enact his $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget after the midterm elections, especially if the GOP is about to lose one or both chambers of Congress.”

“But Trump’s recent receptiveness to Russia — including allowing the sale of Russian diesel fuel, waiving sanctions on Moscow and the still-unexplained slowdown of Ukraine’s satellite defenses — has alarmed the very people pushing for more military spending. And they warn that his agenda won’t survive if the embrace of Moscow continues.”