Approving this bill risks a collapse of the international effort to constrain Iran’s nuclear program and will let Iran off the hook — leaving the U.S. Congress to be blamed.
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 […]
Omnibus Appropriations Analysis (updated); Including Nuclear Weapons Appropriations
$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 […]
Huge Omnibus Appropriations Package: An Unwieldy Mess
Washington, D.C. — Council for a Livable World, a Washington D.C. group focused on national security issues, today criticized the huge $1.067 trillion Omnibus Appropriations Bill filed late last evening as “an unwieldy mess.” The bill is 2,009 pages long and filled with special interest provisions and last minute deals on riders that most Members of […]
December 9 Pentagon Budget Refresher: Omnibus Spending Bill…What’s the Hold Up?
NEW INFORMATION IN ITALICS Defense Appropriations and the Omnibus Spending Bill: Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown on September 30 when it passed a short-term continuing resolution spending bill. Congress is up against the clock once again: if an extension or compromise is not made by this weekend (technically December 11), large parts of the […]
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