The National Defense Strategy is the undisputed driver of the president’s fiscal year 2020 budget request for the Defense Department, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan said today on Capitol Hill.
Shanahan and Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee the $718 billion request for DOD is justified.
“The strategy you supported last year is the same strategy we are asking you to fund this year,” the secretary told committee members.
The $718 billion military budget is critical for continuing to execute the strategy and “reflect difficult, but necessary, decisions that align finite resources with our strategic priorities,” Shanahan said.
