Sentences with phrase «for nondefense discretionary spending»

Even so, the increase for nondefense discretionary spending — a category that covers just about every research agency including NIH, NASA, and the National Science Foundation — is the largest since the original caps were first put in place in 2011 through the Budget Control Act.

Not exact matches

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 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.