Raise the Air Force budget by 5 percent a year above inflation
What the document says“Increase the Air Force budget by 5 percent annually”
The chapter states that the Air Force is the oldest, smallest and least ready in its history, and that its five-year plan retires 1,463 aircraft while buying 467. It asks for a 5 percent annual increase after inflation, and separately for the elimination of pass-through funding, which it describes as money in the Air Force budget that does not go to the Air Force and which it says exceeds $40 billion a year.
What the document actually says“Increase the Air Force budget by 5 percent annually”
Raise the Air Force budget by 5 percent each year.
The book says the Air Force is the oldest and smallest it has ever been. It is retiring far more planes than it buys. The book asks for more money each year.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing among the candidates comes close. None of them concerns the Air Force budget, the five year plan for retiring and buying aircraft, or the pass-through funding the chapter wants eliminated. A service topline is set in appropriations, and no appropriations measure among the candidates touches the Air Force. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.