Tag Archives: budget caps

How Congress Abuses the Budget to Fund U.S. Wars | The National Interest Blog

Benjamin H. Freidman Democrats may have stopped OCO from being used as an unlimited war fund. Congress’s shenanigans on the 2017 defense budget show why we should stop paying for…

The War Over the Pentagon Budget | TIME

Mark Thompson Budget games have preoccupied the Pentagon almost as long as war games, and this week’s release of President Obama’s final defense spending plan, for 2017, is no different….

My Turn: Nation is paying a heavy price for knee-jerk military spending | Concord Monitor

William Ruger After Paris, San Bernardino and almost every terrorist attack, politicians and pundits clamor for the U.S. to do more militarily in the Middle East, spend more on national…

Defense Contractors Cite “Benefits” of Escalating Conflicts in the Middle East

Major defense contractors Raytheon, Oshkosh, and Lockheed Martin assured investors at a Credit Suisse conference in West Palm Beach this week that they stand to gain from the escalating conflicts…

Fact Check: Marco Rubio on defense spending’s impact on debt | AZCentral

THE MEDIA: Speech   WHO SAID IT: Marco Rubio   TITLE: U.S. senator from Florida   PARTY: Republican   THE RACE: GOP presidential primary   THE COMMENT: “The sequester is…