Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democratic senator from Arizona, criticizes the Trump administration’s request for a $1.5 trillion budget for the Department of Defense. Speaking on CBS’s “Face the Nation” with Margaret Brennan, Kelly calls the proposal “outrageous.” He argues that the figure is unusually large compared with other countries’ overall defense spending, saying it is “nearly the amount that the rest of the world pays for its defense.”
The reports describe Kelly’s criticism as part of broader scrutiny of the defense budget level proposed by the administration. In the accounts provided, Kelly does not offer additional policy specifics beyond his characterization of the request’s scale and the comparison to global defense spending. Overall, the coverage focuses on his reaction to the size of the proposed Pentagon budget and frames his remarks as a direct response to the administration’s $1.5 trillion number.
