Sentences with phrase «of nondefense discretionary spending»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.»

The majority of basic research spending comes from the nondefense discretionary budget.

The assorted cuts described above and below are facilitated by changes to the current discretionary spending caps, which dictate the size of annual appropriations each year, and which contain nearly all defense and nondefense science and technology investments.