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Opinion: America's Unquenchable Defense Spending
By Michael Cohen - AOL News(July 20) -- If there's one issue that seems to unite an increasingly divided and fractured capital, it is the ever-expanding federal budget deficit. Everyone seems wants to curb Washington's appetite for spending. Except one area of the federal budget is seemingly off limits: the $692 billion elephant in the room -- America's defense budget. The calls from Republicans and Democrats for belt-tightening rarely, if ever, seem to extend to the military. Deficit hawks in the House have even demanded that an amendment to the $37 billion Afghanistan spending bill that would allocate $10 billion to ...
Gates: $33B Needed ASAP to Keep Military Afloat
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(July 14) -- Warning that the military could run out of money as early as next month, the Pentagon is putting pressure on Congress to pass the wartime budget before lawmakers leave for the August break. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was "disappointed that the Congress did not pass the defense supplemental before the July Fourth break," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said at a press briefing today. The Pentagon is seeking another $33 billion to cover ongoing wartime operations, which will also help pay for President Barack Obama's plan to send another 30,000 troops into Afghanistan. ...
Obama Proposes Another Surge in Military Spending
By Dale Eisman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Feb. 1) – After moving last year to cancel or scale back some of the military's most expensive weapons programs, the Obama administration announced plans today to continue what has become an era of historic growth in defense spending. New spending blueprints unveiled at the Pentagon would push the U.S. military's budget to $708 billion next year, the most in inflation-adjusted dollars since World War II. The plan also would keep the military budget growing for years to come. About $159 billion (22 percent) of the 2011 total will support forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ...
Obama, Gates Propose 4% Increase in Defense Spending
By David Knowles - Politics DailyContrary to the way it is being portrayed by many media outlets and blogs, the Obama administration has put forth a plan that increases overall defense spending by 4% for next year. Over at TPM, Josh Marshall and crew have been monitoring the media meme, stoked by such GOP luminaries as Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich, that Obama's priorities may be making the country less safe. Here's an exchange between MSNBC and former Defense Secretary William Cohen, who tries to set the record straight:One might reasonably speculate whether ending extraordinary rendition, and returning to the Geneva ...
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