Defense Policy In The New Congress And New Administration

President-elect Donald Trump presided over major increases in defense spending during his first term in the White House, but his exact plans for Pentagon spending and military force structure isn’t yet clear.

Trump will inherit a major effort to spur the defense industrial base to ramp up weapons production and more quickly adopt commercial and emerging technology that were priorities for the Biden administration.

Trump and his team have also weighed norm-shattering ideas for the use of the military, including deploying active-duty troops inside the U.S. to assist in priorities such as mass deportation.

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