Sentences with phrase «than defense spending»

More than welfare programs, more than defense spending, more than everything!

Not exact matches

The document reallocates more than $ 54 billion from government entities like the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and even NASA to boost defense spending by the same amount.

In a day of closed - door meetings with NATO foreign ministers, Pompeo appeared to charm European allies with tough talk on Russia and a more sure - footed approach than his predecessor Rex Tillerson, but he still carried Trump's familiar demand for higher defense spending.

It would set FY 2019 defense budget authority at $ 716 billion, the total amount requested by President Trump (including OCO) and slightly lower than CBO's baseline amount, but increase defense spending on net over the budget window.

Though the German government is notionally committed to the alliance's 2 - percent defense - spending target, it only spent 1.2 percent of its GDP on defense last year — an amount her coalition partners, the Social Democrats, and more than half the German public oppose increasing.

But this wrenching concern over the deficit — particularly when the situation in Puerto Rico remains so dire — is hard for some to swallow when conservatives are simultaneously pushing forward a tax reform package that could leave a more than a trillion - dollar hole in the deficit and have signed on to spending bills that added more than $ 100 billion to defense spending, without the immediate promise of offsets elsewhere.

Among the largest U.S. defense contractors, Northrop Grumman Corp has spent more than $ 12 billion on share repurchases since 2010, even as revenue has declined in each of the past five years.

That will be more than we spend each year on defense or Medicaid, and as a share of GDP, it could be the highest in history.

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

In fact, by 2028 — just 10 years from now — the federal budget will spend more on interest payments (about one trillion dollars per year) than on defense (currently about $ 800 billion total).

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More than half of the $ 1.3 trillion spending bill that Congress passed and Trump signed in March is going toward defense.

I'd rather have our taxes spent on improving people's lives than destroying them (the massively over-bloated defense budget in this country).

What it never reveals is that total military spending is actually many times larger than the official appropriation for the Defense Department.

... you did know that Americans now spend more on drugs known to cause brain damage than they do on nationaal defense, did you not?

«A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.»

I'll go a step further if Van Djik hasn't signed for Liverpool I would try to make a move and here is why: 1) Prem experience 2) Southampton plays a similar style of football than Arsenal 3) He can play in both a 3 and 4 man defense with his ability on the ball 4) Mustafi has been up and down and I don't know which one we're getting ahead of next season and will it be for 38 weeks 5) Mertesacker will go into a non playing role 6) Chambers has played well at Boro but well enough to play a big role into this team... not really and could be used in any deal for Van Djik 7) Koscielny is our best defenders but is dealing with a chronic injury not only that he hasn't made the best decisions at times Everything mentioned above will free wages but also increase Wenger money to spend!

he is playing back a bit further than a traditional 4 -3-3, but he has a 3 man defense behind him so he doesn't have to spend so much time focusing on defending and can use that time to win balls in the midfield and push forward.

Arsenal is richer than Liverpool n totenham but why and how did they spend more in the summer n we did not fill in our potholes in the defense, im having too much thoughts these days, watching arsenal becoming more mediocre than ever

But in that let us not forget that subpackages are the new «base» defense — teams spend more time collectively in Nickel & Dime than the so - called «base» defense, and in this, Rashaan's versatility and ability to play in space are, in the parlance of our times, YUUUUGE.

While the chart above illustrates current annual spending in dollar terms, the United States has historically devoted a larger share of its economy to defense than many of its key allies.

The United States spends more on national defense than China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, United Kingdom, India, France, and Japan combined.

Given that France, Germany and the UK have larger economies than Russia does, why do they spend less on defense than Russia does, yet always seem to be scared of Russia?

And this Al - Monitor (a media site focused on Middle East which was accused of following «the agenda of the Iranian and Syrian governments and Hezbollah») article details a bit more the military budget and the growing trend of Iran's military spendings, although it does not state the current total defense budget and its numbers are considerably lower than SIPRI's for the past years, maybe because the fiscal year used in this article begins near 20th March:

After the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan adopted a policy of high levels of military spending to force the USSR to match this spending on the premise that the U.S. had an economy more capable of engaging in this defense spending without collapsing than the Soviets, a concept many considered historically vindicated when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, following in close succession by the splintering of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, and the unification of Germany.

Domestically, defense spending was something that had bipartisan support during WWII and in the early days of the Cold War, and continued to be a signature issue of one of the two major political parties, the Republicans, whose members were much more likely to have been military veterans than Democrats, and who held a more antagonistic view of Communism which was nominally a politically left leaning ideology.

The US spends more on education than defense, although most of that spending is private rather than government spending.

First, let me directly answer your questions: Given that France, Germany and the UK have larger economies than that of Russia, why do they spend less in defense than that of Russia and always seem to be scared of Russia?

They have all committed to spend a minimum of two percent of their GDP on defense, higher than that of many current allies.

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.

At around the same time, staff at NATO headquarters noted that the median defense spending for 1991 — 2003 was 2 percent of GDP — that is, half of the allies spent more than 2 percent, and half spent less.

The New York Post finds that NYC Comptroller John Liu has spent more in legal defense this year than he has raised in campaign contributions.

Fiscal 2017 Defense Appropriations — Vote Passed (371 - 48, 10 Not Voting) The legislation would provide full - year appropriations for Defense Department programs and activities for fiscal 2017, providing $ 577.9 billion in discretionary spending, $ 5.2 billion more than fiscal 2016.

Of late, Cuomo has not been keen to talk about the commission or the probe, but disclosure reports show he has spent more than $ 100,000 on a criminal defense lawyer.

The House budget plan would slash spending by $ 5.4 trillion over 10 years, including more than $ 4 trillion in cuts to mandatory spending like Medicaid and Medicare, while ramping up defense spending.

Esper's visit — which included a talk with U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko — came just a week after President Donald Trump signed off on the biggest defense spending package in more than a decade — $ 1.4 trillion over two years.

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.

Since 2007, the Department of Defense Combat Casualty Care Program has spent more than $ 700 million on 500 - plus TBI projects, including $ 10 million from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command for Schneider's technology.

Analysts at the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank say the U.S. not only spends more than any other nation on research and development, but this spending is growing faster than that of the European Union and Japan.

A new analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the NRDC, finds that the federal government spent three times more than the private insurance industry on climate change impacts last year.

We get to understand why the US polices the world and spends more on defense than other nation.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

June 27, 2012 • With dramatic cutbacks in defense spending looming if Congress fails to reach a budget deal, defense systems manufacturer Lockheed Martin says it will be forced to send layoff warnings to more than 100,000 employees this fall.

The administration achieves this reduction by slashing or eliminating funding for scores of K - 12, higher education, and adult literacy programs by even more than $ 9.2 billion in order to finance massive increases in defense spending coupled with, in the education context, a more than $ 1 billion allocation for Title I portability programs and private school vouchers.25

With 1 out of 4 living in poverty — far more than any other industrialized country (nearly double what it was 30 years ago); a more tattered safety net — more who are homeless, without health care, and without food security; a more segregated and inequitable system of public education, in which the top schools spend 10 times more than the lowest spending; we nonetheless have a defense budget larger than that of the next 20 countries combined and greater disparities in wealth than any other leading country.

Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

Defense costs can be staggering, so this benefits both you and the insurer — you're not worried about burning through your policy limits with the cost of a lawyer and the insurer is able to continue to defend against a suit for which they may be responsible even if they spend more than the policy limits to do so.

While it's true that President Trump has called for $ 54 billion in addition defense spending, including an expanded 355 ship Navy (82 more ships than we have today), more tanks, and a new generation of nuclear weapons (as well as allowing for more foreign weapons sales to allies), there is a big difference between proposed policies and those that actually make it through Congress.

You can think of the index mutual fund «broker penalty» this way: If a consumer spends $ 4 for a loaf of bread when an identical loaf on the same shelf cost $ 2, it is no defense for a «bread broker» who recommends the $ 4 loaf to argue that it cost more because the baker has higher production costs than the baker of the $ 2 loaf.

Despite its promise to find the dogs good homes — and Department of Defense policies requiring as much — the Army spent less than two months to find homes for the canines and, in the end, failed miserably.