Sentences with phrase «more defense spending»

The Modern Whig party advocates for more defense spending.

Not exact matches

The document reallocates more than $ 54 billion from government entities like the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and even NASA to boost defense spending by the same amount.

The December ban also applies to military networks and was included in a more general defense spending bill.

Trump typically was short on details of precisely what he has in mind, particularly how much more in federal treasure he is prepared to spend to destroy terrorists overseas and at home and to transform what many already consider the most powerful military machine on earth to an even stronger, more Trumpian - like defense force.

Defense stocks have climbed as Congress inched closer to a spending agreement, with President Donald Trump insistent that any bill includes more funding for the armed forces.

In a day of closed - door meetings with NATO foreign ministers, Pompeo appeared to charm European allies with tough talk on Russia and a more sure - footed approach than his predecessor Rex Tillerson, but he still carried Trump's familiar demand for higher defense spending.

Though the German government is notionally committed to the alliance's 2 - percent defense - spending target, it only spent 1.2 percent of its GDP on defense last year — an amount her coalition partners, the Social Democrats, and more than half the German public oppose increasing.

Yet like Macron, she differs with Trump on many issues, including immigration (Trump called the chancellor's open - door refugee policy a «catastrophic mistake»), trade (he has derided the U.S.'s «massive» $ 64 - billion trade deficit with Germany), and defense spending (he thinks Berlin should have more of it).

But this wrenching concern over the deficit — particularly when the situation in Puerto Rico remains so dire — is hard for some to swallow when conservatives are simultaneously pushing forward a tax reform package that could leave a more than a trillion - dollar hole in the deficit and have signed on to spending bills that added more than $ 100 billion to defense spending, without the immediate promise of offsets elsewhere.

Among the largest U.S. defense contractors, Northrop Grumman Corp has spent more than $ 12 billion on share repurchases since 2010, even as revenue has declined in each of the past five years.

Even national security could be threatened as a shrinking defense budget has made it more difficult for contractors to justify research spending.

More than welfare programs, more than defense spending, more than everythMore than welfare programs, more than defense spending, more than everythmore than defense spending, more than everythmore than everything!

That will be more than we spend each year on defense or Medicaid, and as a share of GDP, it could be the highest in history.

In fact, by 2028 — just 10 years from now — the federal budget will spend more on interest payments (about one trillion dollars per year) than on defense (currently about $ 800 billion total).

But the more libertarian, limited - government wing of the party generally prioritizes cutting domestic spending over boosting defense spending, and has pushed back against the February deal as allowing profligacy on all fronts.

NATO is expected to spend more on defense and increase its military presence in Afghanistan by «a few thousand more troops,» said the alliance's chief, insisting that the coalition troops will not participate in combat operations.

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More than half of the $ 1.3 trillion spending bill that Congress passed and Trump signed in March is going toward defense.

Ceasar would spend a lot more on defense and not a dime on the poor.

well, if it were up to The right side... we would Stop the drone strikes, put MORE boots on the ground, Increase Defense spending... and rattle some sabers.

... you did know that Americans now spend more on drugs known to cause brain damage than they do on nationaal defense, did you not?

«A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.»

Kolarov made some great forays into and around the Barca box, DeRossi was able to spend more time pressing the 4 - man Barca defense, winning balls and commanding play by bombing passes, short and long, all over the place, and Florenzi was able to make great runs creating space, winning balls, and collecting passes from the back and finding creative places to pass them.

Arsenal is richer than Liverpool n totenham but why and how did they spend more in the summer n we did not fill in our potholes in the defense, im having too much thoughts these days, watching arsenal becoming more mediocre than ever

I agree with you and we should not be spending any more money on defense and may be prompted some one from academy to be understudy

But in that let us not forget that subpackages are the new «base» defense — teams spend more time collectively in Nickel & Dime than the so - called «base» defense, and in this, Rashaan's versatility and ability to play in space are, in the parlance of our times, YUUUUGE.

But the 55 - year old stepped aside to spend more time with his family, leaving John Papuchis to figure out how to keep pushing the defense forward.

GOD knows what wud hav happened if he hadnt inherited george Graham's defense as thats what i hav heard u ppl say.and maybe hes afraid that spending will expose his incompetence... if hes that a genuis that he shows himself to be (he stands on his opinion even when whole world think otherwise); then atleast arsenal twam shud be within some 5 pts of first placed teams for most seasons and hav regularly atleast a quarter final finish.he had shown glimpses of a changed attitude with ozil and Sanchez but i guess am wrong.arsenal first place in January when ozil was bought, ppl asked for striker, but this man showed himself to know more and failed again.a nd last year only club to not buy an outfield player #wow jus wow; like team was picture perfect....

The United States spends more on national defense than China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, United Kingdom, India, France, and Japan combined.

It is noteworthy that both James Steinberg, deputy secretary of state, and William Lynn, deputy secretary of defense, stepped down two years into the Obama administration so that they could spend more time with their children (for real).

And this Al - Monitor (a media site focused on Middle East which was accused of following «the agenda of the Iranian and Syrian governments and Hezbollah») article details a bit more the military budget and the growing trend of Iran's military spendings, although it does not state the current total defense budget and its numbers are considerably lower than SIPRI's for the past years, maybe because the fiscal year used in this article begins near 20th March:

After the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan adopted a policy of high levels of military spending to force the USSR to match this spending on the premise that the U.S. had an economy more capable of engaging in this defense spending without collapsing than the Soviets, a concept many considered historically vindicated when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, following in close succession by the splintering of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, and the unification of Germany.

Domestically, defense spending was something that had bipartisan support during WWII and in the early days of the Cold War, and continued to be a signature issue of one of the two major political parties, the Republicans, whose members were much more likely to have been military veterans than Democrats, and who held a more antagonistic view of Communism which was nominally a politically left leaning ideology.

Because the states you list have very expensive socialistic welfare states and democracy; and therefore politicians in those states have deemed entitlement spending to be more pressing then defense spending.

The US spends more on education than defense, although most of that spending is private rather than government spending.

For example, a common Democrat position is that spending cuts in defense should be used to pay for more social programs.

There is some truth in this argument, although it remains a mystery why it is better to cut social benefits rather than military spending at a time when the United States spend more money on defense than the next 10 military powers — such as China, Russia, France, England, Germany and Japan — combined.

At around the same time, staff at NATO headquarters noted that the median defense spending for 1991 — 2003 was 2 percent of GDP — that is, half of the allies spent more than 2 percent, and half spent less.

The New York Post finds that NYC Comptroller John Liu has spent more in legal defense this year than he has raised in campaign contributions.

I agree with EJ that there is a need for a more portable plan for those that choose not to spend their entire career in government, however, as Brodsky said, that's no reason to wreck the entire system and I don't feel EJ did a very good job of outlining his case — though Brodsky did an even worse job outlining the defense in this case.

For CenterState CEO President Rob Simpson, January is usually a time he and other business leaders start playing defense; fending off budget proposals from Albany that include higher taxes and fees, and more government spending.

Fiscal 2017 Defense Appropriations — Vote Passed (371 - 48, 10 Not Voting) The legislation would provide full - year appropriations for Defense Department programs and activities for fiscal 2017, providing $ 577.9 billion in discretionary spending, $ 5.2 billion more than fiscal 2016.

Of late, Cuomo has not been keen to talk about the commission or the probe, but disclosure reports show he has spent more than $ 100,000 on a criminal defense lawyer.

At that point I said if she more concerned with spending more on defense and cutting the food stamp program I'll call in and ask her the following: «Mrs. Long, are you for a social safety net?»

COBA members — some of whom have sued to claw back the $ 20 million — asked Judge Oetken in May to force Seabrook to reimburse the union for any union funds he has spent on his defense thus far and to block him from using any more of their money to defend himself.

The House budget plan would slash spending by $ 5.4 trillion over 10 years, including more than $ 4 trillion in cuts to mandatory spending like Medicaid and Medicare, while ramping up defense spending.

Esper's visit — which included a talk with U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko — came just a week after President Donald Trump signed off on the biggest defense spending package in more than a decade — $ 1.4 trillion over two years.

Basic and applied research would increase by 2.6 percent and 2.9 percent, respectively, both slightly ahead of inflation; development spending would grow by even more due to large proposed boosts for Department of Defense development activities (see graph at right).

In contrast, most Democrats and some Republicans want the caps lifted so they can spend more on both defense and civilian programs.

Since 2007, the Department of Defense Combat Casualty Care Program has spent more than $ 700 million on 500 - plus TBI projects, including $ 10 million from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command for Schneider's technology.