
Even in a government where Democrats will control the White House and at least one chamber of Congress, political consensus appears to favor continuing the nuclear modernization program the Obama administration started in 2016, the head of the House Armed Services Committee said Monday. “Any effort to change that is running into very strong political headwinds,” Smith told reporters. “Which is a very sort of fancy way of saying ‘we don’t have the votes.’” To help get the New START…