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Proposed Reshuffling of Nuclear Modernization Funds Won’t Hurt USAF, Service Chief Says

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Proposed Reshuffling of Nuclear Modernization Funds Won’t Hurt USAF, Service Chief Says

The Air Force will not be affected in fiscal year 2021 if Congress approves the White House’s plan to short the Pentagon budget by $2.5 billion to increase the National Nuclear Security Administration civilian nuclear-weapons budgets by 25% year-over-year, the service’s chief of staff said Wednesday. “The $2.5 [billion] didn’t have an impact on the Air Force, ” Air Force Gen. David Goldfein, the service’s chief of staff, told Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) during a Wednesday hearing of the House…

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