Sentences with phrase «than cutting military»

Further, eliminating waste, fraud and abuse is much better than cutting military and defense spending.

Not exact matches

So he is going to have to cut the Defense Department's operations even more than he suggested, or increase the Defense budget by around 10 billion dollars to accommodate the department's new responsibilities or hope that nuclear weapons and military nuclear reactors will produce and maintain themselves.

There is some truth in this argument, although it remains a mystery why it is better to cut social benefits rather than military spending at a time when the United States spend more money on defense than the next 10 military powers — such as China, Russia, France, England, Germany and Japan — combined.

As the Trump administration threatened hefty budget cuts for the U.S. Coast Guard, the military service was spending more than $ 6.6 million protecting the president's waterfront Mar - a-Lago Club during his seven weekend trips there this spring, documents show.

The defence experts did however agree that the SDSR was a good balance between the need for spending cuts and preserving the UK military, suggesting that many had feared far greater cuts to the budget than the 7.5 % which emerged.

If Congress spends more than the limits, it automatically triggers across - the - board spending cuts under the federal sequester process and deeper cuts to the military.

In central Bosnia alone, military conflict left more than 200 000 people without water, when soldiers cut off supplies to towns such as Vares˘, Vitez and Zenica.

There are some brilliant quick - cuts between the precision moves of the dance company and the precision moves of the rescue operation — but that's also a problem, because the dance company footage is on some level more involving than the life - and - death military ops stuff, which is pretty standard action movie fare.

Like the F - 150, much of the body is now made of a military - grade aluminum alloy to cut down on weight, although some of the pounds taken off by the switch have been packed back on in other areas; the drivetrain, suspension, and towing hardware are all more sturdy than on the outgoing model line.

Lord Goldsmith was asked, after the meeting, by Admiral Boyce on behalf of the Armed Forces, and by the Treasury Solicitor, Ms Juliet Wheldon, in respect of the Civil Service, to give a clear - cut answer on whether military action would be lawful rather than unlawful.

«The letter, which is circulating inside Google and has garnered more than 3,100 signatures, reflects a culture clash between Silicon Valley and the federal government that is likely to intensify as cutting - edge artificial intelligence is increasingly employed for military purposes.»