Sentences with phrase «military spending bill»

On October 2017, President Donald Trump has signed a $ 700 billion military spending bill that includes a mandate for a blockchain cybersecurity research study.

President Donald Trump has signed a $ 700 billion military spending bill that includes a mandate for a blockchain cybersecurity research study.

An amendment to a major military spending bill before the House would rescind a 2007 federal law barring the Defense Department from using alternative fuels, like synthetic oil made from coal, that produce more climate - altering pollution than conventional fuels.

Noting the connection between childhood hunger and obesity and impaired military recruitment, the US House of Representatives voted in favor of an amendment to a military spending bill expressing support for adequate funding for the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act.

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The December ban also applies to military networks and was included in a more general defense spending bill.

Ryan emphasized «all the wins» in the bill, particularly military spending, and felt encouraged after the call, the source added.

He added that he «looked very seriously» at a veto, but his support for the military spending levels «overrode» his concerns about the bill.

Congress passed a $ 1.3 trillion spending bill in March that provides big increases to the military and to domestic programs lifts strict limits on military and domestic spending this year.

When the U.S. payments deficit pumps dollars into foreign economies, these banks are being given little option except to buy U.S. Treasury bills and bonds which the Treasury spends on financing an enormous, hostile military build - up to encircle the major dollar - recyclers China, Japan and Arab OPEC oil producers.

WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders finalized a sweeping $ 1.3 trillion budget bill Wednesday that substantially boosts military and domestic spending but leaves behind young immigrant «Dreamers,» deprives President Donald Trump some of his border wall money and takes only incremental steps to address gun violence.

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.

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.

But a separate bill is being proposed to make a similar pledge in defence, one that makes sure we maintain Nato's target of two per cent of GDP spent annually on military expenditure.

Congressional leaders finalized a sweeping $ 1.3 trillion budget bill that substantially boosts military and domestic spending but leaves behind young immigrant «Dreamers,» deprives Trump some of his border wall money and takes only incremental steps to address gun violence.

WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders finalized a sweeping $ 1.3 trillion budget bill Wednesday that substantially boosts military and domestic spending but leaves behind young immigrant «Dreamers,» deprives President Donald Trump some of his border wall money and takes only incremental steps to address gun violence.

He also accused the Democrats «of holding our military hostage» over their demand that a short - term spending bill include protection for illegal immigrants brought to the country as children.

Now that the MoD seems to have lost the battle with the Treasury over who will pay the # 20bn bill for replacing Trident, many in the military are asking serious questions about whether we actually need it or not - given that every pound spent on Trident, will be a pound not spent on the basic equipment that will be needed to fight the sort of smaller - scale global operations senior officers foresee as the likely role of the military in the next few decades.

After holding it for four months, the state Senate has just sent Governor Andrew Cuomo a bill that would add hundreds of millions of dollars * to state and local pension costs by allowing public employees to claim pension service credit for time spent in peacetime military duty.

Calling it an «oppressive unfunded mandate» that would impose $ 57 million in «near term obligations» on local governments across New York State, Governor Cuomo has vetoed a bill that would have allowed public employees to claim up to three years worth of pension service credit for time spent in military duty.

House appropriators kicked off the Congressional appropriations cycle for FY 2018, advancing the first spending bill (out of twelve) for the year: Military Construction and Veterans Affairs.

A proposed $ 5 million voucher program for military families that have children with special education needs is part of the defense - spending bill that Congress will take up in its post-election lame - duck session.