Trump's New Arms Control Negotiator Says Hurting Modernization Hurts Arms Control

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Marshall Billingslea, President Donald Trump’s new point man on arms control, warned Thursday that Congress wouldundercut arms control negotiations with Russia and China by slowing progress on the modernization of the U.S. nucleararsenal.“Congress has strongly supported the modernization of our deterrent,” Billingslea, the State Department’s specialpresidential envoy for arms control, said Thursday in a webcast hosted by the Hudson Institute think tank in Washington.“Certainly, now is not the time to change course. And I need to be very clear about this: the risk of any cuts to thebipartisan consensus on modernization, and the plans we have that are under way, in the midst of a negotiation is toinadvertently, or otherwise, hand the initiative to either Beijing or Moscow or both.”