Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday rallied against $33 billion in defense budget cuts ordered by President Trump for the coming year.

The decrease in planned spending could force hard choices between either modernizing the nuclear arsenal or continuing to rebuild conventional forces to deal with growing threats from Russia and China, senators warned.

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