Dan Sullivan calls for higher military spending without saying how he would pay for it

Sen. Dan Sullivan has attached himself to this three-paragraph Republican chain letter that calls for unidentified “spending cuts.”

And he won’t agree to paying debts the government has already accrued without first approving those unidentified spending cuts.

Sullivan and 42 other Senate Republicans signed the chain letter for secret budget cuts.

They also say we need “structural budget reform.”

Everyone loves “structural budget reform,” but not if it is identified by its real name—cutting Social Security and Medicare.

While Sullivan is silent on spending cuts, he continues to shout that we need to spend billions more on the military—without ever mentioning how he would finance the expansion, except by generating debt that he doesn’t support.

In December, he praised action by the Senate in raising military spending by $45 billion over what he called the “anemic” plan by the Biden administration to spend $813 billion on the military.

This year President Joe Biden has proposed increasing military spending to $886 billion, headed toward an annual budget that could top $1 trillion in the next five years.

Sullivan says the Biden budget “shrinks the Navy, shrinks the Army, and shrinks the Marine Corps” because the increase does not match the rate of inflation.

Sullivan claims that Biden knows the Senate will increase military spending above the president’s proposal and it is the “opposite of leadership” to not put in a higher proposal.

What is really the “opposite of leadership” is for the junior senator from Alaska to endlessly argue for higher military spending without ever proposing higher taxes to pay for it. And to endlessly argue for unidentified spending cuts.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski had the sense not to sign the Republican chain letter.