The top Republican on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, Representative Ma...
FILE PHOTO: House Armed Services Committee Chsirman Mac Thornberry chairs a committee hearing on"The National Defense Strategy and the Nuclear Posture Review" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Thornberry, who chaired the powerful committee from 2015 to the start of this year, said in a statement he felt it was time for a change after 25 years in Washington. His district in Texas’s northern panhandle is one of the most reliably Republican in the United States, having gone 80 percent for Trump in 2016.
Thornberry has generally backed Republican President Donald Trump’s policies, but he did question the president’s decision to take money from the military budget to pay for a wall on the border with Mexico. As Armed Services chairman, Thornberry helped win large increases in U.S. military spending; the Pentagon’s annual budget is now over $700 billion. He also worked to streamline the Pentagon’s outdated acquisitions system.
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