From the linked piece on Antiwar (that actually contains the story) :

“We’re going to be clearing out the jungle [and] we’re going to be resurfacing some of the surfaces there so that we will have a fairly large and very functional Agile Combat Employment base, an additional base to be able to operate from and we have several other projects like that around the region that we’ll be getting after,” he said at the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber conference, according to Defense One.

“That takes resources to be able to accomplish and so those are some of the resources that I argue for when I go back to the headquarters,” Wilsbach added. He said the Air Force requested funds for additional construction in the Pacific for its 2024 military budget.

Wilsbach said that every new base in the region is a new area China would have to target. “Every single additional airfield that I can operate from is another in a contingency or crisis, or a conflict is another airfield that China has to put into their targeting folders and, and then allocate resources toward them, which dilutes their ability to shut us completely down,” he said.

Operating these (evil) foreign bases is hugely expensive for the U.S. The justification for additional ones, that Wilsbach puts forward in the third paragraph quoted above seems quite stupid to me. Basically "We're giving them more sites they have to target and bomb". Well, it costs much, much less to target and bomb a base than it does to build it up, equip it and man it for years on end before it is blown up and destroyed by 2 or 3 hypersonic cruise missiles in the actual event of a war.