The annual military budget could hit $1 trillion by 2027
The push for China competition, along with a lack of fiscal discipline, is pushing Pentagon spending into the stratosphere.
The push for China competition, along with a lack of fiscal discipline, is pushing Pentagon spending into the stratosphere.
There are now 900 amendments to the NDAA. We break down some of the most extravagant and expensive.
Lawmakers in the thrall of the defense lobby show their cards in proposed budget increases. This one’s a doozy.
Now begins Pentagon budget season and with it, a long wish list and efforts to justify massive increases.
Progressives have to shed politically-charged projects and identify budget issues and personalities with bipartisan appeal.
DC establishmentarian says we’ve allowed our military to atrophy, and need more than $1 trillion a year to restore its ‘reach and its punch.’
Given the current state of the economy, that would mean the DoD budget could increase by over $100 billion.
The vaunted Obama-era BCA limits expire today. Sadly, they did nothing to rein in defense spending.
Democratic Rep. Anthony Brown is disingenuous when he says the military will be cut to offset costs for bold plans at home.
A new cold war atmosphere will allow the Pentagon to hoard resources that would otherwise go to our greater public health and safety needs.