McConnell: Defense spending in debt ceiling deal is 'totally inadequate'

the debt ceiling issue behind us the challenge that lies ahead is to have some semblance of a regular Appropriations process we've got the farm bill important to a whole lot of my members it's going to require a lot of it bipartisan cooperation to do what we need to do all of that leads to my major concern look I supported the the Biden McCarthy deal but I was not happy with the defense number the defense number is totally inadequate to meet the challenges that we have in Asia not to mention Ukraine I'm not sure at this point how to fix it but uh it's a problem the serious problem that hopefully we'll find some way in the course of the year to address thanks for watching our YouTube channel follow today's top stories and breaking news by downloading the NBC News app

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Published: Thu Jun 08 2023