Sentences with phrase «nondefense discretionary spending»

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.

In total, the President's budget contains about $ 50 billion more in FY 2002 in nondefense discretionary spending (out of which all nondefense R&D is funded) than the FY 1996 congressional budget resolution.

This year's resolution, approved by the House Budget Committee earlier this month, has tax and entitlement reform as its major goals, but also recommends a big boost for defense discretionary spending at the expense of nondefense discretionary spending — a recommendation similar to what the White House proposed.

The total did not rise in proportion to health outlays and Social Security because defense and nondefense discretionary spending shrank in relative terms.

Projected nondefense discretionary spending — although still expected to decline — is about $ 50 billion higher in today's dollars in the FY 1999 budget request than in the FY 1996 resolution.

Over the past four decades, except in the 1960s during the heyday of the Apollo Program (which in respect to R&D funding was an exceptional situation), trends in nondefense R&D spending have closely followed trends in overall nondefense discretionary spending, and trends in total federal R&D, including defense, have tracked total discretionary spending.

«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.»

The bipartisan deal raises the caps on defense and nondefense discretionary spending by nearly $ 300 billion overall.

Nondefense discretionary spending gets a $ 63 billion boost in fiscal year 2018, and another $ 68 billion in FY 2019 (the spending year that starts October 1, 2018).

That account, called nondefense discretionary spending, will grow by 4.7 %, to $ 491 billion, in the 2014 fiscal year.

They expect to pay for that increase by cutting an equivalent amount from nondefense discretionary spending — the part of the budget that includes major basic research funders.

The ceiling for nondefense discretionary spending is $ 515 billion.

During a Thursday budget hearing, for instance, House Appropriator Rep. Ken Calvert (R - CA) told Defense Secretary James Mattis, «Most if not all of us agree that the base on defense must go up... but the funding on military can not be obtained on the back of nondefense discretionary spending.

By 2027, nondefense discretionary spending would be reduced 16 percent below current law base spending.

«There's nobody that's wrong on estimates right now,» Bossert said, when asked about a suggestion from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) that recovery needs might exceed $ 100 billion — a figure that would represent about 10 percent of what the federal government spends each year on all nondefense discretionary spending combined.

In fact in FY 1996, nondefense discretionary spending was the only category of federal spending that both sides agreed to cut.

The figures would also be affected, of course, by how Congress and the Administration chose to allocate the reductions between the major budget categories of defense and nondefense discretionary spending.

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.

To reach that defense spending goal, however, Congress will need to agree to change to change a 2011 law, known as the Budget Control Act (BCA), that places binding caps on defense and nondefense discretionary spending, which accounts for roughly one - third of the $ 3.5 trillion that the federal government spends annually.

The 2 - year budget deal gives Congress only $ 5 billion more to spend in fiscal 2019 for nondefense discretionary spending than it had this year.

The new spending package raises caps on defense and nondefense discretionary spending (in $ billions) over two years.

The publication also explains that, within two years, nondefense discretionary spending will be a smaller percentage of our economy than ever before if lawmakers do not replace sequestration with a more comprehensive deficit reduction strategy.