Sentences with phrase «defense spending began»

Southern California was Republican - leaning, largely because the defense industry was a major economic engine -LSB-...] In the early 1990s, defense spending began to fall, and numerous military bases in California were closed.

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

Not exact matches

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:

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.

Washington (CNN)- A top Senate Democrat bluntly warned Monday that her party is prepared to let all the Bush - era tax cuts expire and automatic spending cuts to defense and domestic programs take place at the beginning of next year unless Republicans agree to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

The strategy continued into 2017, reports Elana Schor in Politico, when «All but four of the Senate's 48 Democrats [in December] warned congressional GOP leaders against pursuing a government funding plan that would boost defense spending for the rest of the fiscal year while leaving domestic priorities at current levels... Some Senate Democrats began pushing back... as House conservatives pitched Republican leaders on a full - year hike for the Pentagon paired with a continuing resolution for domestic programs.»

White House officials said today that they will ask Congress to increase discretionary defense spending by $ 54 billion, to $ 603 billion, in the 2018 fiscal year which begins 1 October.

Following a summer spent volunteering with the campaign to protect Alaska's wilderness, I arrived at Earthjustice (then known as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund), and began an association that has lasted twenty - two years so far.

Mr. Scaffidi began the firm after spending nearly a decade at a prestigious Manhattan defense firm, representing physicians and corporate defendants and trying their most serious cases.

Prior to joining Marshall Dennehey, Tim spent the beginning of his legal career handling insurance defense for a firm in Northern Kentucky and more recently with a regional litigation firm in Cincinnati.