
Marshall Billingslea, President Trump’s new pointman on arms control, warned Thursday that if Congress slows down the ongoing U.S. nuclear modernization plan, it would undercut arms control negotiations with Russia and China. “Congress has strongly supported the modernization of our deterrent,” Billingslea, the State Department’s new special presidential envoy for arms control, said Thursday in a webcast hosted by the Hudson Institute think tank in Washington. “Certainly, now is not the time to change course. And I need to be…