Sentences with phrase «than the defense budget»

MORE than the Defense budget of the U.S.

China's «social stability maintenance» expenses are now larger than its defense budget.

Not exact matches

«After more than a decade combatting violent extremists and conducting contingency operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and most recently Syria, [the Defense Department] has prioritized the rebalancing of its forces in recent budget requests to build and sustain the capabilities necessary to prevail across a full range of potential contingencies,» states a Government Accountability Office report released in June.

«The diplomatic portion of the federal budget is very important and you get results a lot cheaper frequently than you do on the defense side,» McConnell told reporters.

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.

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).

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

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.

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:

The Obama administration and its Democratic allies on Capitol Hill are dead set against the idea, which breaks with a hard - won budget deal that's less than a year old; they say that if Republicans want more money for defense, domestic programs will have to receive an equal boost.

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.

Science and technology programs across these bills — which cover the Departments of Energy, Defense, and Veterans Affairs — fare far better than they would have under the White House budget request, but many programs are still lined up for some reduction, even after several floor amendments added some science and technology funding to different corners of the bill.

The total proposed American defense budget for 2008 is more than half a trillion dollars — with $ 75 billion of that set aside for research and development.

The country allotted a defense budget of more than $ 36 billion for 2017 to build a homegrown anti-missile system to deal with growing North Korean threats.

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.

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.

Even though that's more than Obama projected for 2018 and less than what congressional defense militarists want, Todd Harrison, direct of the Defense Budget Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said, «It's in line with what you're expecting to see.defense militarists want, Todd Harrison, direct of the Defense Budget Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said, «It's in line with what you're expecting to see.Defense Budget Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said, «It's in line with what you're expecting to see.»

In its report on next year's Pentagon budget, the House Armed Services Committee banned the Defense Department from making or buying an alternative fuel that costs more than a «traditional fossil fuel.»

The combined budgets of these two efforts is probably less than the Environmental Defense Fund or the Sierra Club spend on (fair trade, recycled) coffee filters in a month.

In February 2014, Environmental Defense Fund, together with the Climate Reality Project, Organizing for Action and Sierra Club delivered more than 120,000 citizen comments to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in support of a strong Social Cost of Carbon (SCC).

Powerline blogger Steve Hayward quips that the combined budgets of CEI and Climate Depot are «probably less than the Environmental Defense Fund or the Sierra Club spend on (fair trade, recycled) coffee filters in a month.»

I hold special scorn for those who want to tear away funding for programs that mostly benefit the disadvantaged, because this is pure gamesmanship — if politicians were serious about balancing the budget, they'd either tackle defense and entitlement programs, or do something that would be much, much better for the economy than slashing government spending: raise taxes on the wealthy.

The Defense Department's best budget predictability in more than a decade shows Congress and the executive branch are aligned in terms of the threats to the nation and current and future military readiness, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis said.