Sentences with phrase «in the defense budget»

Hebrew daily «Yediot Ahronot» reports that the Ministry of Defense will stop procurements of the Iron Dome anti-missile system, due to cuts in the defense budget.

Are we broke because of WIC programs or broke because of wars, tax breaks for billionaires, Medicare overruns, and major pork in the defense budget?

The total welfare amount is barely a rounding error in the defense budget.

McSally wants to preserve funding in the defense budget for the Air Force's A-10 Warthog fleet, the very planes she commanded as the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat.

So, we would welcome any increase that the Trump administration wants to make in the defense budget that would result in additional soldiers coming back to Fort Drum.»

Third, the Obama administration can achieve large savings from sensible reductions in the defense budget because it is at an unprecedented level:

Not exact matches

«The defense industry — the Department of Defense — is the single biggest customer in the world,» says Laingen, who estimates that the military awards some $ 150 billion in contracts each year, depending on the size of its defense industry — the Department of Defense — is the single biggest customer in the world,» says Laingen, who estimates that the military awards some $ 150 billion in contracts each year, depending on the size of its Defense — is the single biggest customer in the world,» says Laingen, who estimates that the military awards some $ 150 billion in contracts each year, depending on the size of its budget.

If these projections come true, it will mean the government will have less wiggle room to fund all the other programs in the budget, including defense, infrastructure, education, environmental protections and other discretionary programs.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has a lot on his mind these days, from cutting the defense budget to managing the drawdown of U.S. forces in AfghaDefense Secretary Leon Panetta has a lot on his mind these days, from cutting the defense budget to managing the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghadefense budget to managing the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing CEO, discusses the demand for more airplanes with the growth of passenger air travel, the increased defense budget in the U.S. and its progress on a deal with Embraer.

The American military and US defense contractors are facing severe cuts in their budgets, and need to constantly re-justify themselves.

CNBC's Morgan Brennan speaks with L3 Technologies CEO Chris Kubasik and chairman Mike Strianese about the U.S. defense budget and acquisition activity in the defense space.

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).

In late March, Trump floated the idea of redirecting funds from the defense budget toward funding the wall he has promised to build on the frontier.

The contractor is also a prime beneficiary of the White House's defense budget increase, as well as new arms deals with the likes of Saudi Arabia: Lockheed's stock price has risen some 26 % over the past year, handily beating the S&P, while revenue jumped 17 % in 2016.

Hagel, who would replace retiring Pentagon chief Leon Panetta, would also oversee budget cuts in the Defense Department.

«After more than a decade combatting violent extremists and conducting contingency operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and most recently Syria, [the Defense Department] has prioritized the rebalancing of its forces in recent budget requests to build and sustain the capabilities necessary to prevail across a full range of potential contingencies,» states a Government Accountability Office report released in June.

«The fiscal year 2018 all - in national defense budget will have a big step up and then a modest lift in fiscal year 2019,» wrote Cowen's Roman Schweizer on Thursday.

Trump's budget also calls for what the President deemed a «historic» increase in military spending, amounting to an additional $ 52 billion allocation for the Department of Defense.

In Mr. Cross» defense, he does not appear to be a fan of balanced budget legislation in the first placIn Mr. Cross» defense, he does not appear to be a fan of balanced budget legislation in the first placin the first place.

Hectoring your long - term allies in Europe and East Asia to pony up more money for common defense may, under the best circumstances, shave a small amount off the Pentagon's budget, but at the expense of long - term trust.

The survey, conducted by the British defense company BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, found that U.S. firms in industries such as banking, technology, law, and mining are now spending up to 15 percent of their entire IT budgets on security.

With ISIS continuing to fight, Russia and China throwing their weight around, and budget shortfalls becoming bigger and bigger problems, the Department of Defense will definitely need strong leadership in the form of a commander - in - chief and his political appointees in the months immediately following the inauguration next year.

The budget would also zero out the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account and cap exempt nondefense spending, placing the defense funds in the base defense category and eliminating the nondefense OCO funds.

In September of this year, Macron outlined his roadmap for the EU, which includes establishing a common defense budget, increasing investment in clean energy and the harmonization of tax receiptIn September of this year, Macron outlined his roadmap for the EU, which includes establishing a common defense budget, increasing investment in clean energy and the harmonization of tax receiptin clean energy and the harmonization of tax receipts.

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

«Since abolishing its army in 1949, the country has reallocated its defense budget to funding education, health, and pensions.

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.

The bill also calls for the lifting of limits on federal spending, which would allow the repeating increases in defense and domestic budgets.

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).

The past few weeks have seen a new federal budget agreed to in the USA, with the figure for «defense» spending coming in at the highest level ever: $ 700 billion US Dollars.

I expect defense budgets to continue rising over the next 3 to 5 years, due in part to escalating geopolitical tensions.

I'd rather have our taxes spent on improving people's lives than destroying them (the massively over-bloated defense budget in this country).

♦ Richard Vigilante is writing in National Review about the changing forms of liberalism and conservatism, and the last line makes this one worth citing: «The future of conservatism seems to lie in a concern for the state not of the deficit, or of the defense budget, but of the culture.»

As Lewis Lapham says, the barbarism in Washington today doesn't dress itself in the costumes of the Taliban, but wears instead the smooth - shaven smile of a Senate resolution sold to the highest bidder — for the drilling of the Arctic oil fields, for the lifting from the rich the burden of the capital - gains tax, for bigger defense budgets, for reduced medical insurance, for enhanced surveilance, or for some new form of economic monopoly.

If we cut our defense budget by half over the next 5 - 10 yrs we would still be the BIGGEST / BADDEST military in the world.

The next year he blasted Roosevelt's billion - dollar defense budget as «the worst piece of militarism in modern history.»

In contrast, sectors of the population linked to international trade, occupying a dominant position in world markets, and depending on open diplomatic channels might well find themselves more in sympathy with lower defense budgets, higher education outlays, cosmopolitan values, and liberal religious institutions whose theologies favor universalism and whose moral teachings favor relativism and discretioIn contrast, sectors of the population linked to international trade, occupying a dominant position in world markets, and depending on open diplomatic channels might well find themselves more in sympathy with lower defense budgets, higher education outlays, cosmopolitan values, and liberal religious institutions whose theologies favor universalism and whose moral teachings favor relativism and discretioin world markets, and depending on open diplomatic channels might well find themselves more in sympathy with lower defense budgets, higher education outlays, cosmopolitan values, and liberal religious institutions whose theologies favor universalism and whose moral teachings favor relativism and discretioin sympathy with lower defense budgets, higher education outlays, cosmopolitan values, and liberal religious institutions whose theologies favor universalism and whose moral teachings favor relativism and discretion.

Since World War II we have lived under this shadow of nuclear destruction, darkening as missiles and carriers grew in numbers and power, darkening as our defense budget doubled every decade: $ 10 billion in the «40s, $ 20 billion in the «50s, $ 40 billion in the «60s, and $ 80 billion in the «70s.

... The barbarism in Washington doesn't dress itself in the costumes of the Taliban; it wears instead the smooth - shaven smile of Senate resolution sold to the highest bidder — for the drilling of the Arctic oil fields or the lifting from the rich the burden of the capital - gains tax, for bigger defense budgets, reduced medical insurance, enhanced surveillance, grotesque monopoly.

If mom is spending money you don't have on baby clothes, a budget in black and white may be your best line of fiscal defense.

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:

Despite the rhetoric of President Obama's «pivot,» U.S. Army and Marine Corps forces in the region will merely be restored to pre-Iraq-war levels — no new permanent deployments are being contemplated — while the overall U.S. defense budget is set to decline by $ 487 billion over the next 10 years.

In the 2014 - 2015 budget, the agency was unable to guarantee money to any of the state's counties for public defense.

Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, writes in the letter that Obama should include repeal in his budget request to stay true to the promise he made to end the ban last year during a speech at an HRC dinner.

The defense bill, meanwhile, is caught in a furious battle sparked by a Republican move to use emergency war funds to try to artificially increase the basic Pentagon budget by $ 16 billion next year.

When asked about what the legislature has done to protect New Yorkers from the policies of Donald Trump, both Cuomo's office and a spokesperson for the IDC pointed to the $ 10 million set aside in the budget for an immigrant defense fund to ensure that undocumented immigrants have access to legal representation.

Despite an array of media reports expressing astonishment at how well Democrats — a minority in both House and Senate — fared in the budget agreement, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that President Trump got much of what he wanted, including more money for defense and homeland security.

She says the remaining fight is over how much control Cuomo's budget department has in handing out the funds, and whether total cost for counties» legal defense services would be financed by the state, or only a portion.