by Jake Smith
The Biden administration “strongly opposes” a proposal to raise the pay of junior enlisted service members in the military — even after nearly spending seven times the proposed amount on Ukraine and the broader region’s security.
The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) draft of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would give all junior troops a pay raise, representing a rough total of $24.4 billion over five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The Biden administration said in a statement on Tuesday that it does not support the proposed “significant, permanent” pay hike until it has had a chance to conduct a compensation review. (RELATED: Korean War Vet With Shrapnel In Leg Receives Purple Heart After 73 Years)
“The Administration is strongly committed to taking care of our Servicemembers and their families, and appreciates the Committee’s concern for the needs of the most junior enlisted members, but strongly opposes making a significant, permanent change to the basic pay schedule before the completion of the Fourteenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation,” the White House budget office said.
US President Joe Biden boards Marine One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on June 11, 2024, as he travels to Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
The Biden administration has spent over $175 billion on aid to Ukraine and European security since 2022 — roughly one-seventh of the proposed pay hike for the junior troops, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The $175 billion amount is broken into several packages over the course of two years, including the most recent aid package of $61 billion in April.
“When accounting for inflation, the average American makes less today than when Joe Biden took office. The White House wants to block Republicans from giving our troops the raise they need to make ends meet in the Biden economy,” Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, a HASC member, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Meanwhile, they’ve sent the Ukrainian government $11,500 per Ukrainian household. It’s shameful.”
Bipartisan members of the HASC promoted the pay increase for junior troops as a way to improve recruiting and retention, a problem that the military has increasingly struggled with.
Biden care more for Ukraine then he dose for America more reasons to vote the Scoundrel Out
There is something sinister about why so many care so damn much about Ukraine. It goes back to victoria nuland and the color revolution of 2014 when the state department forced out a democratically elected president of Ukraine. The bark on this tree will need to be peeled as well.
Because Putin’s invasion and conquest of Ukraine, if successful, would set a precedent that others like him would soon follow. Let them have what they want and they invariably want more, taking everything they can get. The sons-of-a-bitches don’t really care how many they kill, including their own people.
Putin invaded Ukraine, not the other way around. Any argument disregarding that basic fact is bullshit.
Bullshit
Somebody still is trying to sell the long-discredited “Domino Theory.”
Also missing is his awareness of how the Nulands/obamas goaded Putin into this by shifting the line where neutral/buffer countries were to NATO ones.
Truth is not your friend. If Putin wins, Xi will move on Taiwan. Kim could move on South Korea. The whole damn world could go to war.
All thanks to Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden’s weakness, corruption and stupidity.
Truth is not found in the Liberals campaign. Pinhead
Without Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden’s weakness and incompetence, there would have been no Russian invasion.
DISCLAIMER
biased i am!
God gave me the honor and privilege to lead the suad of the best Riflemen in the world 57,58years ago. twice ,as a Buck Sgt, I was a platoon leader of the best Riflemen in the world. -Dnt get excited – one of those “platoons’ had 11 men COUNTING me!
FUCK DOMINION AND THEIR PUPPET PRESIDENT! Many Lances I saw die were a thousand tomes the man Biden is!
Maybe Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden and the left think making up disgusting lies about what Trump says about veterans is an acceptable substitute for a pay raise. Of course, they will hand out billions of dollars to illegal immigrants, directly and through entitlements, but pay raises for troops (who are accused of being racist anyway) is out of the question.
Maybe we should be asking who would serve in our military for cheap.
Illegals and those who hate Americans.
joe’s Cabinet has spread the idea that our military will be called on to kill Americans.
joe’s label for his targets is “domestic terrorists.”
But he keeps saying his domestic terrorists are defined as simply Trump supporters.
Loads of patriotic Americans have quit the military under joe.
Most immigrants didn’t travel thousands of miles enduring hardship and danger to come to a place they hate.
I don’t know if it’s your reading skills, my writing skills, or willful ignorance on your part …. but…..
I wrote a question and answered it with TWO groups who might serve in the military for cheap:
No, they do that to get somewhere they’ve been promised free healthcare, free citizenship, jobs, housing and an open border.
The leftists that offer all this to lure any and all illegal immigrants (including terrorists and criminals) are who hate America.
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