Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly criticized what he calls a lack of strategy in the war with Iran, as well as the depleting stockpile of U.S. weaponry.
On CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Kelly says it will take years to replenish.
“This president got our country into this [war] without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline, and because of that we’ve spent a lot of munitions," Kelly said. "And that means the American people are less safe. Whether it’s a conflict in the western Pacific, with China or somewhere else in the world, the munitions are depleted."
Kelly also called the Trump administration's defense budget request of $1.5 trillion “outrageous,” and nearly equal to the total amount the rest of the world spends on defense.
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