The White House on May 2 shared a $1 trillion military budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 and some congressional Republicans have said the funding doesn’t quite add up.
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought sent a letter to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) that laid out the 2026 budget. Vought told Collins, the Senate Appropriations Committee chair, that the plan provides a 13 percent increase in the military budget, bringing the total to $1.01 trillion.
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the Senate Armed Services Committee chair, was quick to dispute Vought’s budget.
“[The Office of Management and Budget] is not requesting a trillion-dollar budget. It is requesting a budget of $892.6 billion, which is a cut in real terms,” Wicker said in a May 2 statement….