Sentences with phrase «national defense budget»

«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.

Not exact matches

The president's $ 4.4 trillion budget, unveiled Monday, includes federal spending of $ 200 billion for infrastructure upgrades; $ 18 billion for Trump's border wall; and $ 716 billion for national defense.

Under Obama's proposal, national security programs would see an increase of $ 38 billion over current spending limits, raising the defense budget to $ 561 billion.

Even national security could be threatened as a shrinking defense budget has made it more difficult for contractors to justify research spending.

♦ 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.»

Shall we reduce the defense budget and use more of our national income to meet social needs at home like housing and medical care?

If elected to Congress, I will fight to balance the budget, reduce the national debt, ensure a strong national defense, and eliminate burdensome regulations on small businesses,» Faso said.

If elected to Congress, I will fight to balance the budget, pay off the national debt, ensure a strong national defense, and eliminate burdensome regulations on small businesses.

US national security and the provision of an adequate defense budget for America's diminished armed forces (since 1991, the naval forces dropped from 546 ships to 285; the Army fell from 76 brigades to 45; and the Air Force lost about half of its fighter and bomber squadrons) was held hostage in the recent budget negotiations just completed.

However, most science policy analysts are wringing their hands over the tiny increase sought for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a small rebound for the National Science Foundation (NSF) after a cut in 2005, and reductions in the science budgets at NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the departments of energy and defense.

«The president's proposed FY18 budget is an imbalanced, heavy - handed approach to bolstering national defense at the expense of other American priorities, including the research and innovation crucial to national security,» said Mary Woolley, president and CEO of Research!America in Arlington, Virgnia.

Importantly, the burden for these cuts would have been entirely carried by the nondefense side of the budget, which houses the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and all other science agencies outside the defense realm.

Depending on budget scenarios, the panel suggests that one other fusion facility — the DIII - D operated by the defense firm General Atomics in San Diego or the National Spherical Torus Experiment in Princeton, New Jersey — could also face the chopping block five years later.

«We need a real budget, one that allows responsible investments in critical federal programs — including our national defense — without breaking the bank and pushing our country further into deficits and debt,» said Hal Rogers (Republican, Kentucky), chairman of the House of Representatives appropriations committee, in a written statement.

The federal government entered the student loan market in 1958, providing direct loans from the U.S. Treasury through the National Defense Education Act, according to New America Foundation's Federal Education Budget Project.

This petition garnered over 30,000 signatures, which led Paul Shawcross, Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget, to respond, «The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon.»

Then, with their freely - chosen support, the sky is the limit: reallocate sections of the defense budget to selective nation - building; change agricultural policy to favor sustainable home - grown food where possible in the interests of health and national security; create programs that encourage Americans to help with sanitation, agriculture and birth control in developing countries; slice away the parts of government that get in the way (thereby freeing up the budget); protect citizen and consumer's rights; strictly regulate pollution; shut down destabilizing financial schemes, and eventually earn enough respect in the world that we're not the only ones on the bandwagon.

We can also use some of our massive defense budget to fund the train systems since getting the nation off oil is certainly a matter of national security.

After successfully passing a budget amendment back in May that basically forbids the Pentagon from acknowledging climate science — despite the fact that the Department of Defense considers doing so to be vital to national security — his newest effort prohibits both the U.S. Department of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers from spending «to design, implement, administer or carry out specified assessments regarding climate change.»

All of the major federal agencies that it relies on for research grants — including the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, NASA, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration — are feeling the squeeze of shrinking spending in an effort to control the ballooning federal budget deficit.

For the not - exactly - surprising finding that critical infrastructure defense is poorly coordinated among agencies, for example, the report recommends that the president promote his cybersecurity advisor to a deputy national security role capable of coordinating with the Office of Management and Budget.