Stopgap funding bill should be kept short-term: Wittman
"It looks like there's going to be another continuing resolution that'll come up next week. ... The debate has been, how long should that CR go?" said Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va.
Another Ukraine supplemental ‘likely’ needed if war continues on current trajectory: DoD Comptroller
“I have been sort of bludgeoned into being desensitized to [CRs] that go all the way to December in situations like this,” Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord said. “I would love to see it only go… ‘til right after the election. But I think that would surprise me if it didn't go straight to December.”
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Senate passes $95 billion foreign aid bill, as DoD eyes next Ukraine weapons package
Additional aid for Ukraine could be made available “within days” said Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder earlier today.
House approves $95 billion defense supplemental with aid for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan
The Ukraine bill passed in a 311-112 vote, the Israel bill passed in a 366-58 vote, and the Indo-Pacific bill passed in a 385-34 vote.
Army will have to cancel exercises with NATO, inside CENTCOM, with no budget supplemental
“We don't have a lot of cash under the sofa cushions and if we don't get a budget, and we don't get a supplemental, we're going to probably have to cancel some things,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said today.
Not just 155mm: Army says it needs supplemental funds to shore up combat vehicle fleets
The service has sent hundreds of ground combat vehicles to Ukraine since February 2022, and Maj. Gen. Glenn Dean warned that “sustainment challenges” abound without additional dollars.
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The $640 Billion Solution: Thornberry, Wilson Want More Defense $ From Trump
WASHINGTON: Can Congress close the gap between the $603 billion President Trump wants for defense and the $640 billion pro-defense legislators say is necessary for 2018? Yes, we can, says Rep. Joe Wilson, new chairman of the House readiness panel. “I support (House Armed Services) chairman Mac Thornberry and (Senate Armed Services chairman) John McCain,” he […]
Thornberry Says HASC Would Oppose Year-Long CR
CAPITOL HILL: “I do not think a year-long CR will pass the House,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry told reporters this afternoon. Full-year CRs aren’t that common, but the last few years have usually seen Congress, incapable of passing timely appropriation bills — which is one of their most basic and important jobs — instead passing a […]
With Trump, Congress Can Kill Sequester: Thornberry
CAPITOL HILL: Can Congress finally break the logjam of the Budget Control Act and increase spending on defense? Yes we can, said the cautiously optimistic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Why are the chances any better this year than for all the failures since 2011? Because, Rep. Mac Thornberry told reporters this morning, […]
Mattis Puts Readiness First, Modernization Later In Budget
WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has laid out a measured and cautious spending plan that puts near-term readiness needs first in his first budget guidance memo. The memo, out this morning, largely defers major equipment modernization until 2019 and limits increases in the size of the force to “the maximum responsible rate” (emphasis ours). So, […]
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Trump’s ‘Debt Bomb’: Deficit May Grow, Defense Budget May Not
WASHINGTON: “Trump is going to explode the debt,” GOP pundit Mackenzie Eaglen said. “What you’re going to see is a debt bomb.” While the new president wants to grow the military, rebuild infrastructure, and cut taxes, Eaglen said, his plan to fund all that that through steep domestic spending cuts “is complete fantasy” that will […]
Congress, Don’t Wait On Trump To Boost Defense Budget
Congress is setting the defense budget on autopilot and high-tailing it out of town, leaving a lot of unfinished business behind. While President Obama is set to sign the defense policy bill for 2017 into law, this Congress left the funding bills in shambles for the next session to fix. As a stopgap, an extended […]
Trouble For Trump: Fixing Sequester, DoD Budget May Be A ‘Bloodbath’
SIMI VALLEY, CALIF.: “I don’t how we buy it back without a real bloodbath,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham. “It” is the $500 billion, 10-year cut to defense spending imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011, popularly (mis)called sequestration. Graham, one of Donald Trump’s harshest critics in the GOP, is not alone in thinking the […]
Donald Trump Needs A ‘Bigger Stick,’ So Up Defense $: Thornberry
WASHINGTON: The odds keep getting better that Donald Trump will ask for a big boost to defense spending in a supplemental request soon after his inauguration. But who gets how much for what? That raises a whole host of unanswered questions, experts and policymakers made clear today at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. […]