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You are here: Home / Blog / Omnibus Appropriations Analysis (updated); Including Nuclear Weapons Appropriations

December 17, 2015

Omnibus Appropriations Analysis (updated); Including Nuclear Weapons Appropriations

(new information in italics)

 

$1.067 billion: Total cost of Omnibus bill
2,009: Total pages of the bill
$573 billion: Total cost of Pentagon budget
$607 billion: Total cost of national defense budget category 050, Pentagon plus Department of Energy weapons programs plus the Overseas Contingency Operations account

The bill includes $514 billion for the base Pentagon budget. It also includes $74 billion for the slush fund called loosely the Overseas Contingency Operations account, which includes $59 billion for the Pentagon. The $573 billion for defense is $5 billion less than the President’s request and $19 billion more than what was enacted for FY 2015.

The most ironic line in the Democrat’s Senate Appropriations Committee press release: “The Subcommittee’s allocation eliminates the OCO gimmick.” Aside from $74 billion in the account.

Provides funding for the following programs:

  • $1.4 billion for the new strategic nuclear-armed submarines (Ohio replacement program), which was the Pentagon request
  • $736 million for the new long range strategic bomber, a reduction of $510 million from the request of $1.2 billion “to rephase funds to current schedule”
  • $75 million for the Intercontinental Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) replacement program, which was the Pentagon request
  • $16 million for a new long-range cruise missile, a reduction of $20.5 million from the $37 million requested due to “execution delays”
  • $1.3 billion for the ground based mid-course missile defense system, small adjustment from the Pentagon request
  • $89 million for conventional prompt global strike development and flight test, an increase of $10 million from the Pentagon request
  • $20 million added to initiate the multi-object kill vehicle (MOKV) and $10 million added for technology for the MOKV.
  • $700 million for chemical weapons destruction, a reduction of $20 million
  • $359 million for the Cooperative Threat Reduction non-proliferation program$8.8 billion for nuclear weapons work in the Department of Energy budget, an increase of $615 million from last year
  • $250 million for Ukraine defensive equipment and training
  • $8.1 billion for the Missile Defense Agency, an increase of $175 million from the request
  • $5.7 billion for F-35 procurement for 3 more planes than requested

Notable Provisions in the bill:

  • Bars closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison
  • Dropped House-passed provision providing funding through transfer authority to a National Sea-Based Deterrence Fund to pay for new nuclear-armed submarines.
  • Bars spending on nuclear armed missile defense interceptors (Section 8076)
  • Bars reductions or preparation for reductions of any deployed or non-deployed nuclear strategic delivery systems or launchers below New START levels (Section 8112)
  • Bars spending to implement the Arms Trade Treaty (Section 8118)
  • Bars retirement or preparations for retirement of A-10 aircraft (Section 8123)
  • Bars any preparations for a new round of base closures (Section 8132)
  • Rejects Pentagon request for $600 million for the Syria train-and-equip program but permits transfer of other funds for this purpose.
  • States Pentagon is working to achieve ‘auditability” by 2017, but does not require it.

Among the add-ons from the Pentagon’s original request:

  • $350 million for 5 F/A-18 Super Hornets for the Navy.
  • $660 million to the President’s request for 7 E/A-18G Growlers for the Navy.
  • F-35 Lightning II Procurement:
    • $294 million for three Air Force aircraft.
    • $780 million for six Marine Corps aircraft.
    • $255 million for two Navy aircraft.
  • Adds $329.8 million to the President’s request for Israeli missile defense programs.
  • Adds $138.8 million to the President’s request for seven additional Blackhawks for the Army National Guard.
  • Adds $1 billion to the President’s request for an additional DDG-51 Destroyer and $635 million for an Afloat Forward Staging Base.
  • Adds $1 billion for national guard and reserve equipment

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