Sentences with phrase «defense spending»

-- Much of the decline is due to cuts in defense spending, as previously highlighted.

The new international situation after the cold war offers unparalleled opportunities to redirect the present level of defense spending to other uses.

A pretty substantial chunk of the economy relies on defense spending.

If the government plans to cut defense spending, it means that a lot of revenue could be lost for companies that do business in this space.

The $ 4 trillion budget proposes massive tax cuts for the rich and major corporations while boosting defense spending and it attempts to pay for both with cuts to nearly everything else.

Since 1990, defense spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product has fallen by more than 40 percent.

I absolutely agree with reducing defense spending, but the how is tricky.

The decline appears primarily due to decreased defense spending.

As explained last month, violating the caps would trigger a sequestration: across - the - board cuts to force defense spending back down within the caps.

Overall, the bill includes a total defense spend of nearly $ 700 billion.

A rough calculation of purchasing power parity suggests the correct figure for Chinese defense spending could be double official estimates.

What happens if defense spending really falls off a cliff?

The main contributors to the contraction were national defense spending and inventory investment, each shaving roughly 1.3 percentage points from growth.

But this type of war doesn't depend on large defense spending.

Also, the proceeds of defense spending are strategically distributed across key states and Congressional districts to ensure popular support.

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

The Trump administration had proposed cutting NIH's budget by about $ 1 billion this year, as part of a proposal to pay for defense spending increases by cutting domestic programs.

More defense spending for Republicans and always increasing social spending for Democrats, combined with borrowing to replace tax revenues.

That would be thanks to an expected uptick in defense spending under the Trump administration.

In the intervening two months, Republicans need merely pass a bill through the House removing defense spending from sequestration, putting the onus on the president to buck his own Secretary of Defense by opposing the bill.

Berlin also reacted furiously at Washington's reminder to live up to its NATO obligations of keeping defense spending at 2 percent of GDP.

By proposing to raise defense spending by about the same amount as domestic programs, Obama is putting the GOP on notice that he won't accept cuts to his own priorities just to make way for more spending on national security programs that both parties are in the mood to support.

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.

However, the Senate budget allows the discretionary spending level to be increased if Congress enacts legislation increasing the limit on defense spending without requiring that increase be offset by savings elsewhere in the budget.

Next, there's the inherent political uncertainty surrounding defense spending which accounts for nearly 60 % of GD's sales.

It calls for boosting discretionary defense spending in 2018 by $ 54 billion, and paying for that increase by cutting discretionary spending at civilian agencies such as EPA.

While the Administration is proposing a $ 54 billion increase in the base defense spending cap — and an additional $ 65 billion in overseas defense funding outside the cap — much of this increase would not filter down to DOD's science and technology accounts, which cover basic and applied research and early - stage technology activities (S&T; the «6.1» through «6.3» accounts in the DOD nomenclature).

Democrats are unlikely to go along with any appropriations that boost defense spending while simultaneously trimming nondefense, as the omnibus does.

Quin is right that the Republicans have to act decisively and cleverly to «remove defense spending from sequestration.»

Does US defense spending divorced from NATO (South Korea, etc) count towards the 2 % spending threshold?

You can also see here that defense spending began to fall following the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq

said conservatives want the measure to allow additional defense spending.

Even with a base defense spending increase of 9.4 percent, S&T programs would decline by approximately 5.4 percent below funding levels enacted in the FY 2017 omnibus, though this is also a 3.5 percent increase above FY 2016 levels.

Lastly, the National Nuclear Security Administration — benefiting from the proposed 10 percent increase in defense spending overall in the request — would see a mix of increases for its research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) accounts.

She says that the Coast Guard has shouldered the burden of building new vessels while government defense spending increases have gone elsewhere.

The sixth annual Carlton Fields Class Action Survey confirms that the increase in class action defense spending reported in last year's survey was no anomaly.

An obscure provision tucked into a U.S. defense spending bill could act as a springboard for blockchain adoption across government agencies.

Defense spending aside, transatlantic rifts could also occur should Trump continue to make critical foreign policy decisions without first consulting allies (as in the April 7 air strike against Syria in response to a chemical - weapons attack) or if he presses NATO allies to make stronger military contributions in Syria or Afghanistan.

The U.S. defense sector was shaken by attempts under former President Barack Obama to curb defense spending growth.

As you can see in the graph below, leading up to and following the collapse of the Soviet Union defense spending did indeed begin to drop, however the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the following wars in Iraq and Afghanistan reversed the trend.

You can raise defense spending if you are raising also everything else (and not borrowing), so is, in an economic boom, and even then you're probably being frown upon.

The Trump administration is not losing Europe by calling Germany out for living off its trade partners, and for its subpar defense spending.

While China's domestic security spending outstrips defense spending, though the government stopped providing exact figures four years ago, it has also struggled with some pointed intelligence failures.

(The Swedish government recently completed a cross-party deal to boost domestic defense spending.)

In his list of obstacles to the U.S. economy, the J.P. Morgan CEO included defense spending: «Over the last 16 years, we have spent trillions of dollars on wars when we could have been investing that money productively.

«We had already adjusted defense spending as a share of GDP upwards to historic levels,» says lead author Sarah Carlson, a Moody's SVP, who adds that Moody's hasn't yet run the numbers on the non-defense cuts.