Sentences with phrase «increase nondefense spending»

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The flash point in the funding - bill fight is a Democratic demand that the bill include an equal - size funding increase in defense and nondefense spending.

The new federal budget plan matters and is increasing defense and nondefense spending to the tune of $ 300 billion, which would put the fiscal year 2019 deficit at over $ 1 trillion or 6 % of gross domestic product (GDP).

For Immediate Release Senate leaders have agreed to a massive budget deal raising the defense and nondefense spending caps for two years, increasing...

Orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft — a proxy for business spending on equipment — declined 1.3 % in December, reversing some of November's 2.6 % increase.

To cut a long - term spending deal, Democrats are pushing for an equivalent increase in both defense and nondefense funding above the spending caps set under a 2011 budget agreement - one similar to agreements reached in 2013 and 2015 to raise the caps for the following two years.

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.

Democrats had for months insisted on equal increases for defense and nondefense spending, but in the end did not secure such parity.

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.»

Under the RSC plan, the nondefense budget would have been cut by $ 1.4 trillion or 25.0 percent over ten years (see Figure 2), while defense spending would have seen a $ 406 billion or 6.8 percent increase over that time.

Democrats don't plan to go along with the wall funding, or the defense spending increase in the House bill if there are not comparable nondefense increases.