WH urges Senate authorizers to reverse four missile defense provisions

摘要

The Trump administration is balking at four missile defense provisions advanced by the Senate Armed Services Committee's mark of the fiscal year 2021 defense authorization bill, asking lawmakers to reconsider a funding cut and increase to the Next Generation Interceptor and Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii programs, respectively. The White House Office of Management and Budget is also asking the Republic-led Senate panel to scrap legislation that would establish a new project to modernize the existing Ground-based Interceptor fleet and roll back proposed oversight of plans for a layered homeland missile defense architecture.