Sentences with phrase «military has spent»

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report which found that the military had spent up to $ 150 per gallon for alternative jet - fuel.

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It follows the disclosure that the heir to the throne has regularly lobbied ministers over pet subjects including homeopathy, architecture, rainforests, rural housing and military spending.

While the budget proposes large spending cuts to many government agencies — the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department budgets would be cut 31 % and 28 %, respectively — defense and military spending would increase substantially.

It would significantly boost military spending and increase funding for border security, infrastructure and efforts to fight the opioid epidemic.

Norway has increased military spending by 9.4 % for 2016.

Since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, governments worldwide have been looking toward a «peace dividend,» an across - the - board decline in military spending.

He'd like to increase military spending, sign free trade deals with other Asian countries, make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers, change immigration laws, get more women in the labour force and much more.

Democrats are demanding increases in non-defense spending if military budgets are pumped up as Trump has demanded.

If Trump were to step up spending on the war and military hardware, most of that would likely end up on the nation's credit card.

This is no small matter to a country that already has spent literally trillions of dollars - and suffered the loss of nearly 7,000 military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq - since former Republican President George W. Bush launched the war on terrorism in the wake of 9/11.

Trump typically was short on details of precisely what he has in mind, particularly how much more in federal treasure he is prepared to spend to destroy terrorists overseas and at home and to transform what many already consider the most powerful military machine on earth to an even stronger, more Trumpian - like defense force.

The RAND report estimated that if transition - related services were extended to active - duty personnel, the military's healthcare costs would increase by between $ 2.4 million and $ 8.4 million a year — at most a 0.13 % increase over the $ 6.2 billion the Defense Department spent on healthcare for active - duty personnel.

President Donald Trump has said he plans to pay for billions of dollars more for the military by cutting spending on domestic agencies and departments.

Other defense companies such as Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics — which manufactures everything from tanks to nuclear - powered submarines — have also benefited amid talks of augmented military spend.

The deal would raise spending caps by about $ 300 billion over two years and bump the limit on military spending by $ 80 billion in the current year and $ 85 billion in the next year.

The United States has only 4 % of the world's population, but spends more than half of its research and development dollars, much of which is tied to the military.

I've spent a lot of time with some amazing people as a result of my work, including many who served in the U.S. military, some of whom were wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan.

While it is difficult to ascertain exactly how much the US military spent in Syria specifically, Operation Inherent Resolve as a whole has cost over over $ 18 billion as of February 2018, according to the Pentagon.

Northrop Grumman, the defense giant, has managed impressive earnings growth, and has recently benefited from a political push to increase U.S. military spending.

Answering to Trump's promises of increased military spending, stocks in the aerospace and defense industry have popped 39 % based on the SPDR S&P 500 Aerospace and Defense exchange - traded fund.

Russia cut its military spending in 2017, a Kremlin spokesman acknowledged, just as the United States and its European allies have imposed steep sanctions on the former Cold War rival's economy.

A spending spree on mostly U.S. - made equipment means Japan's defense planners are being forced to curtail domestic programs that would help local defense contractors such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kawasaki Heavy Industries maintain their military industrial base.

(Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who, like Price, spent more than $ 1 million on military and charter travel, still has a job too.)

When foreign funds could not be borrowed, countries had to pay gold to defray the costs of their military spending, or go off gold to print money freely and see their currencies depreciate.

The U.S. media somehow neglect to mention that the U.S. Government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars abroad not only in the Near East for direct combat, but to build enormous military bases to encircle the rest of the world, to install radar systems, guided missile systems and other forms of military coercion, including the color revolutions that have been funded and are still being funded all around the former Soviet Union.

Since 2001 the silver and gold markets have gone up substantially as a reaction to the 20 year precious metals bear market from 1980 — 2000, massive increases in military spending, weakening global economies that REQUIRE Quantitative Easing to avoid deflation, the rise of competing currencies that weaken the dollar's trading status, excessive debts in Europe, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and so much more.

The federal government has promised to keep 68,000 full - time military members and 27,000 reservists in uniform, despite declines in defence spending and the closure of 12 military recruiting centres across the country in 2013.

«I have absolutely no clue why this information is being withheld, and I'm astounded that it is,» said Perry, an expert on defence spending who has written several detailed analyses of the effects of Conservative government's spending cuts on the military.

To give themselves an incentive, they passed drastic domestic and military spending cuts that would take effect on January 1, 2013, if they couldn't reach on a more sensible program.

I will grant you that we do have access to very inexpensive and quite good health care coverage (TRICARE) due to having full retirement benefits from the military, but I will also mention that neither of us have spent even $ 1 of our military retirements on living expenses.

And for all you saying that this is voluntary you have never spent any time in the military or if you have you spent it with hands over eyes.

Just think how much more peaceful a place this world would be if we spent the money on guns an military might on healthcare and clean water, food, and clothing.

One I read drivel like yours I again recommit to having the military unfunded and all that wasted money spent on educating young Americans..

Santorum wants to increase military spending, has said that we should keep our troops in Iraq (forever, I guess) and openly talks about bombing Iran.

«Congress to decide how much to spend... We can not keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever!»

By the time of the Maccabees, for example, the practice of keeping the Sabbath was so central to Judaism that, according to Josephus, the Romans had to exempt the Jews from military service because they were useless as soldiers on the Sabbath.12 Seneca could not understand the Sabbath exercise and chided the Jews for spending every seventh day of their lives in idleness.13

@ «ROBM it could be easily argued that China and other countries military spending has increased only to keep America in check.

Yet the Congressional Military Industrial Complex a cadre of congress people who chair and sit on committees that authorize military spending have bankrupted the nation and in the wake of 9 - 11 created a host of liberty robbing laws that are the anti-thesis to what our foundersMilitary Industrial Complex a cadre of congress people who chair and sit on committees that authorize military spending have bankrupted the nation and in the wake of 9 - 11 created a host of liberty robbing laws that are the anti-thesis to what our foundersmilitary spending have bankrupted the nation and in the wake of 9 - 11 created a host of liberty robbing laws that are the anti-thesis to what our founders wanted.

Its figures show, among other things, that, after an initial demand stimulus, the effect of a significant rise in military spending (as we've experienced in recent years) turns negative around the sixth year.

In the words of Noam Chomsky, a venerable critic of American imperialism: «Where spending is rising, as in military supplemental bills to conduct the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it would sharply decline.

You people are very misinformed, only police, military and a very select few class 3 ATF licensed gun dealers can have automatic assault rifles, and the horrible terrible people at the NRA spend millions a year teaching gun safety, gun responsibility, gun training and promote legal gun ownership, a gun is a firearm, a tool that only becomes a weapon when the one holding it intends to harm another, until then it's a gun.

On February 5, Rumsfeld informed the House Armed Services Committee that the military buildup against Iraq has already cost $ 2.1 billion and that further costs of the war will require a separate spending bill.

Biggest Idea: Shane Claiborne with «Give to Uncle Sam What is Uncle Sam's» «Imagine what would happen if a massive popular movement of ordinary Americans decided to voice their concern about military spending — by withholding $ 10.40 from their 1040 tax forms this year?

And all this while the government spent, on average, only twenty cents of every disposable dollar on human resources — education, employment, job training, social services, health, and fiscal assistance — but spent fifty - five to sixty - four cents of every tax dollar that congress has the authority to distribute, meaning minus entitlements, on the military.

Totally have to agree with this comment about military spending especially on federal retirements for military and civil servants.

that's exactly what republicans are saying and wil continue to say because of military spending in their districts and kick backs from foreign governments who don't have to cover thecost of their own security needs.

Having said, you better not cut that military spending too much because other nations seem to have a problem with our blessing.

They can demand a reduction in unnecessary and wasteful military spending which an insatiable Pentagon would force on us.

He would cut spending on the poor, increase military spending, and wage holy war.Jesus was no liberal, class warfare, hippie wuzz.

I do not need the government or media to tell me how to live my life, I spent over ten years in the active military I joined when it was an honor to serve and as soldiers we did not have to follow bureaucratic system of rules that are in place now we had something the liberals will never have honor and morality.