Defense Spending
Trump Calls His Own Defense Budget "Crazy" In Rare Moment Of Honesty
This article originally appeared on PoliticsWhip. Back in January, President Trump requested a $716 billion defense* budget for fiscal year 2019, amounting to a seven percent increase over the year before. Unlike proposals that seek to give Americans access to affordable health ...read more
The Vice President Goes Full Biden On Dick Cheney
Vice President Joe Biden took aim at Sith Lord Dick Cheney on Wednesday at a gathering of young progressives, slamming his predecessor for insisting that the military budget "ought to be our top priority for spending. Not food stamps, not highways, or anything else." In his ...read more
U.S. Still Dominates in Arms Spending
By Lawrence S. Wittner According to a report just released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), world military expenditures in 2012 totaled $1.75 trillion. And, the report revealed that, as in all recent decades, the world’s biggest military spender ...read more
The Trickery of the Military Budget
A U.S. military rescue team secures a landing site in Afghanistan after being being lowered from an HH-60 Pave Hawk during a mission Nov. 7, 2012. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder) By Paul R. Pillar As budgetary battles proceed with competing rhetorical ...read more
War Spending and the ‘Fiscal Cliff’
U.S. Marines leaving a compound at night in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. (Defense Department photo) By Coleen Rowley: As the final scene of Thelma and Louise seems to be playing out these last few days, it might be a good time to recall the dramatic end of that movie. It’s ...read more
