Obama said he would not sign the draft of the new military budget of the United States, approved by Congress
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US President Barack Obama announced that he would not sign the new military budget of the country. Obama explained his decision by saying that the draft of the new military budget includes an increase in defense spending by about 90 billions of dollars. It should be noted that the draft military budget for the 2016 year was approved by both houses of the US Congress, in which the majority today belongs to the Republicans.
I'm going to send it (draft budget) back to Congress. My wish (to Congress) looks very simple: let's do everything right. We are at the main stage of the discussion of the military budget. Let the budget be one that meets national security as effectively as the economic one.
Part of the increase in spending in the new US military budget corresponded to military aid to Ukraine. The amount that Washington planned to send to Kiev was 300 million dollars. In this regard, Kiev has to switch to nervous waiting mode - will the Americans send a third of a billion to the military budget of Ukraine or not?
The total expenditure of the US military budget was set at more than 612 billion dollars. These are the biggest spending on the military sphere among all countries of the world.
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