Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) knocked President Trump’s 2026 budget proposal on Friday for not doing enough to keep pace with military threats from China, Russia and other adversaries.

Wicker warned the spending level called by the White House budget would “decrease President Trump’s military options and his negotiating leverage.”

“President Trump successfully campaigned on a Peace Through Strength agenda, but his advisers at the Office of Management and Budget were apparently not listening. For the defense budget, OMB has requested a fifth year straight of Biden Administration funding, leaving military spending flat, which is a cut in real terms,” Wicker said in a statement.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought wrote in a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) that Trump’s budget would increase defense spending by 13 percent for fiscal 2026, bringing it to $1.01 trillion.

But a Senate GOP aide said the........

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