By John Isaacs The House concluded consideration of the annual defense bill; a bad bill out of the Armed Services Committee was made worse on the House floor, aided and abetted by the House Rules Committee. The bill was built on a huge budget gimmick; it takes the $58.8 billion Overseas Contingency Operations budget – […]
U.S. Pentagon Spending Higher than Korean, Vietnam wars
U.S. federal spending for the Pentagon are now higher than during the Korean War, Vietnam War, and the Reagan years. Source: National Defense Budget Estimates for FY 2016
The Iowa Results Are In
The difference between the GOP frontrunners and Council-endorsed candidates is stark.
CS Monitor: Board Member Jim Walsh on Congressional Vote to Destroy Iran Deal
“It is nothing less than bizarre that, at the very moment when Iran has followed through on its commitments to reduce its nuclear program, Congress would vote on legislation that could undermine the agreement and leave Iran unconstrained and closer to a nuclear weapon,” says Jim Walsh, an international security expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge
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 […]
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