Sentences with phrase «discretionary defense spending»

In 2018, that cap is $ 549 billion for discretionary defense spending, $ 54 billion below Trump's plan.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The February federal budget deal, meanwhile, hikes outlays in both of the two categories of «discretionary» spending, defense and federal programs from foreign aid to housing subsidies, by an unprecedented 12 %, or $ 150 billion a year in 2018 and 2019.

Republican Presidents, including Trump, have promised to balance future budgets with gigantic reductions in discretionary spending, a category that includes both outlays for defense, and all other areas that are voted each year (as opposed to entitlements that provide benefits guided by a fixed formula).

«Republicans always wanted to raise spending on defense, Democrats wanted to raise spending on the rest of the discretionary budget across the board, and Republicans supported increased spending on a lot of those line items as well.»

My guess is you'll see expenditure reductions in defense because in terms of discretionary spending, it's the largest department.

That amount would be about evenly split between plans for $ 530 billion in discretionary nonmilitary spending, and $ 561 billion in defense spending, according to The Washington Post.

With mandatory spending and interest costs growing rapidly, there is little room for growth in the defense or non-defense discretionary budgets.

On discretionary (appropriated) spending, the budget would adhere to the current defense spending caps through 2021 and growing with the CBO baseline thereafter.

After that, the budgets make similar changes to discretionary spending (higher defense and lower non-defense), though with different numbers.

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.

People keep forgetting that most government spending is transfer payments, but it is only purchases of labor and goods that go directly into the GDP calculations, and it is these accounts that will get smacked by the sequester of discretionary defense and non-defense budgets.

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.

Both plans also contain significant reductions in funding for domestic non-entitlement (also known as «discretionary») programs and significant increases in defense spending.

For instance, the New York Democrat calls Ryan's proposed spending cuts «totally unrealistic,» including the idea that discretionary spending, including defense, could be reduced to under 4 percent of gross domestic product in 2050.

This year's resolution, approved by the House Budget Committee earlier this month, has tax and entitlement reform as its major goals, but also recommends a big boost for defense discretionary spending at the expense of nondefense discretionary spending — a recommendation similar to what the White House proposed.

During a Thursday budget hearing, for instance, House Appropriator Rep. Ken Calvert (R - CA) told Defense Secretary James Mattis, «Most if not all of us agree that the base on defense must go up... but the funding on military can not be obtained on the back of nondefense discretionary spDefense Secretary James Mattis, «Most if not all of us agree that the base on defense must go up... but the funding on military can not be obtained on the back of nondefense discretionary spdefense must go up... but the funding on military can not be obtained on the back of nondefense discretionary spending.

The figures would also be affected, of course, by how Congress and the Administration chose to allocate the reductions between the major budget categories of defense and nondefense discretionary spending.

Over the past four decades, except in the 1960s during the heyday of the Apollo Program (which in respect to R&D funding was an exceptional situation), trends in nondefense R&D spending have closely followed trends in overall nondefense discretionary spending, and trends in total federal R&D, including defense, have tracked total discretionary spending.

While the Trump Administration has proposed deep cuts to nondefense discretionary spending to allow a defense increase, that approach has been widely rejected, if for no other reason than it would require the politically impossible hurdle of 60 votes in the Senate.

«Further, the president's budget, which cuts nondefense discretionary spending while significantly increasing defense spending eliminates the parity between defense and nondefense spending that has been a hallmark of America's recent fiscal policy.»

The bipartisan deal raises the caps on defense and nondefense discretionary spending by nearly $ 300 billion overall.

The assorted cuts described above and below are facilitated by changes to the current discretionary spending caps, which dictate the size of annual appropriations each year, and which contain nearly all defense and nondefense science and technology investments.

-- Since Defense / Discretionary spending's mostly for the «greater good `, politicians could reasonably hope some of these cuts would go unnoticed.

Remember, this is all discretionary spending, so none of the big stuff — the defense budget, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc — was touched.

Cook said he expects lawmakers to forge a deal before the end of the year on avoiding sequestration — the round of automatic spending cuts that will impact defense and other discretionary spending categories — and take up some type of tax reform in 2013.