Here’s All the Military Pork Baked Into the Proposed COVID-19 Bill
$30 billion of spending on weapons just in the coronavirus bill
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, a Republican from Alabama, formally introduced the proposed bill on July 27, 2020. It would need the full Senate to pass it and for the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives to pass their own version before it could even head to President Donald Trump’s desk, where he could then sign it into law.
If it were to become law today, here are the main specific defense-related spending items that would be authorized:
$283,000,000 to the Army for new-build AH-64E Block IIIB attack helicopters.
$375,000,000, to the Army for upgrades for its Double V-Hull (DVH) Stryker 8×8 armored wheeled vehicles.
$1,068,000,000 to the Navy for P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
$41,400,000 to the Navy for RGM-184A Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) and launchers specifically for the service’s Littoral Combat Ships (LCS).
$2,210,000,000 to the Navy, $1,450,000,000 for four “expeditionary medical ships” and $260,000,000 for a single Spearhead class Expeditionary Fast Transport.
$49,100,000 to the Navy for sonobuoys.
$686,000,000 to the Air Force for F-35A Joint Strike Fighters.
$720,000,000 to the Air Force for C-130J Hercules airlifters.
$650,000,000 to the Air Force for wing replacement kits for A-10 Warthog ground-attack aircraft.
$76,325,000 to “defense-wide” spending to establish an eighth Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery.
$243,270,000 to “defense-wide” spending for an AN/TPY-2 missile defense radar to go with the eighth THAAD battery.
$40,100,000 to “defense-wide” spending to replace a modified de Havilland DHC-8 intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft belonging to U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) that was destroyed during a terrorist attack in Kenya in January 2020.
$20,000,000 to the Air Force to support the integration of the AGM-158 Joint Air-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) onto variants of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
$65,800,000 to the Missile Defense Agency for hypersonic weapon defense.
$39,200,000 to the Missile Defense Agency for cruise missile defense.
$200,000,000 to the Missile Defense Agency for a Ground-based Mid-course Defense (GMD) Service Life Extension Program (SLEP).
$290,000,000 to the Missile Defense Agency for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor.
$153,000,000 to the Navy for depot-level ship maintenance work.
$800,000,000 for the “National Guard and Reserve Equipment Account.”
$20,000,000 to the Navy for “United States Marine Corps Force Design unfunded requirements.”
$19,500,000 to the Army for “Force Protection Upgrades.”
$882,068,000 to the Army for general operation and maintenance.
$458,237,000 to the Navy for general operation and maintenance.
$135,542,000 to the Marine Corps for general operation and maintenance.
$969,357,000 to the Air Force for general operation and maintenance.
$112,071,000 for “defense-wide” general operation and maintenance.
$8,000,000 to the Army Reserve for general operation and maintenance.
$30,000,000 to the Army National Guard for general operation and maintenance.
$12,000,000 to the Air National Guard for general operation and maintenance.
$48,500,000, to the Army for “other procurement.”
$34,823,000 to the Navy for “other procurement.”
$484,000 for “defense-wide” “other procurement.”
$5,300,000,000 for Defense Production Act purchases related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
$1,494,000 to the Air Force for research, development, test, and evaluation work.
$20,931,000 for “defense-wide” research, development, test, and evaluation work.
$1,783,500,000 for Defense Working Capital Funds.
$705,000,000 for the Defense Health Program.
$1,128,000,000 to the Army for a “Defense Industrial Base Resiliency Fund-Army.”
$4,664,000,000 to the Navy for a “Defense Industrial Base Resiliency Fund-Navy and Marine Corps.”
$4,273,400,000 to the Air Force for a “Defense Industrial Base Resiliency Fund-Air Force and Space Force.”
$783,100,000 for a “Defense Industrial Base Resiliency Fund-Defense: Special Operations Command and Missile Defense Agency.”
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