Pentagon Spending

CBO Issues Dire Warning On Bush Tax Cuts

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.22.2012

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WASHINGTON — A new government study released Tuesday says that allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire and a scheduled round of automatic spending ...

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House Defense Bill Funds Programs Pentagon Wanted To Cut

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 05.07.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A House panel has unveiled a $608 billion defense spending bill that restores some of the programs the Pentagon wanted to cut next year ...

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Pentagon Encouraging School Bake Sales to Help Pay for Wars

Mark C. Miller | Posted 04.03.2012

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Mark C. Miller

In an attempt to raise funds for the military budget, the Pentagon is encouraging schools to hold bake sales and donate the profits to the armed forces.

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Throwing Money at the Pentagon

William Hartung | Posted 05.20.2012

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William Hartung

When it comes to the American military, the leading Republican presidential candidates evidently only learned to add and multiply, never subtract or divide.

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Obama's Budget Bomb: He Proposes Spending Increases, While Disarming America

Ken Blackwell | Posted 04.16.2012

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Ken Blackwell

In terms of actual cuts in defense spending, Obama is shifting the focus from what is known to work in missile defense to developing futuristic missile intercepts which will require years of experimenting at great expense to taxpayers while a vulnerable America waits.

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Special Forces on Steroids

Michael Brenner | Posted 04.16.2012

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Michael Brenner

More military capability equates to more security for the United States. This precept is so deeply embedded in our minds that no one sees a need to state it. Yet it may be false.

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A Defense Budget at the Crossroads

Jonathan Masters | Posted 04.09.2012

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Jonathan Masters

The Pentagon's new strategic guidance and the budget projections it informs suggest the United States has reached "an inflection point" along its fiscal/military trajectory -- a time to pare back spending.

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Pentagon Leaders Outline New Plan To Cut Ground Forces

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 03.27.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon outlined a plan Thursday for slowing the growth of military spending, including cutting the size of the Army and Marin...

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Little-Known Committee Pushing Corporate Change For The Military

Mother Jones | Adam Weinstein | Posted 11.21.2011

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With time fast running out for the so-called deficit supercommittee, the mammoth amount of government money spent on the military has become a prime t...

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Republican Hypocrisy On Government Job Creation Exposed

AP | By DONNA CASSATA | Posted 01.04.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The same Republicans who insist that federal spending doesn't create jobs and should be cut in the face of staggering deficits are leadi...

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New Report Reveals Shocking Amount Spent On Weapons After 9/11

Mother Jones | Adam Weinstein | Posted 01.02.2012

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Capitol Hill conservatives and Pentagon brass fighting cuts to defense spending have argued that the military is limping off the battlefield with decr...

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Coffman Wants to Cut Pentagon -- I'm Waiting for the Tea Party Cheers

Jason Salzman | Posted 12.11.2011

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Jason Salzman

I may disagree with Rep. Mike Coffman about most things, but he has a lot of guts to call for Pentagon cuts, like he's been doing, especially since he represents a district near Colorado Springs.

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193,000 Jobs: The True Cost of the Wasted $60 Billion in Iraq and Afghanistan

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.02.2011

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Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe

The U.S. spends 59 percent of its discretionary budget on "defense," or $726 billion. If the deficit commission wants to cut the budget in a way that creates jobs, they should start at the Pentagon.

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Panetta: Bigger Defense Cuts Would Be Devastating

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 10.16.2011

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WASHINGTON — Large new cuts in defense spending would "terribly weaken" U.S. national security, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday as h...

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Alexander Eichler

Real Impact, Extent Of Defense Cuts Remains Hard To Predict

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 10.02.2011

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The debt deal reached by the White House and congressional Republicans this Sunday includes $350 billion in security cuts over the next 10 years, with...

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Why Is the Most Wasteful Government Agency Not Part of the Deficit Discussion?

David Morris | Posted 09.12.2011

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David Morris

Any serious battle plan to reduce the deficit must take on the Pentagon. When debt ceilings and deficits seem to be the only two items on Washington's agenda it is both revealing and tragic that both parties give a free pass to military spending.

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Amanda Terkel

How Much Are You Paying For The War In Afghanistan?

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 06.18.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As Americans breathe a sigh of relief over finally filing the returns on what they owe (or are owed from) Uncle Sam this Tax Day, the pr...

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Amanda Terkel

WATCH: GOP Lawmaker Claims Every Time The U.S. Has Cut Taxes, Revenue Has Gone Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 06.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As Congress addresses the federal deficit and begins debating next year's budget, a centerpiece of the conversation is whether to raise ...

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Amanda Terkel

Member Of John Boehner's 'Kitchen Cabinet' Of Economists Supports Afghan Withdrawal

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 06.11.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As Congress looks at all sorts of discretionary non-defense projects to cut to reduce the deficit, a core member of House Speaker John B...

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Pentagon Spends Billions To Fight Roadside Bombs, With Little Success

McClatchy | Peter Cary & Nancy A. Youssef | Posted 05.27.2011

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In February 2006, with roadside bombs killing more and more American soldiers in Iraq, the Pentagon created an agency to defeat the deadly threat and ...

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The Real U.S. National Security Budget: The Figure No One Wants You to See

Christopher Hellman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christopher Hellman

$1.2 trillion a year. Take that in for a moment. The simplest way to grasp this is to go through what we know about the national security budget, step by step, and add it all up.

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Our Coup d' Etat, by Accident

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lorelei Kelly

If we Americans and our civilian-elected leaders don't come to terms with our over-dependence on the military, we will cede increasing authority to an institution that doesn't want it and should not have it.

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F-35 Engine Battle Breaks Out On GOP Spending Bill

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Determined to reduce deficits, impatient House Republican freshmen made common cause with President Barack Obama on Wednesday, scor...

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Republicans Split Over Plans To Cut Defense Budget

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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To hear the Republican leadership tell it, the once-sacred Pentagon budget, protected by the party for generations, is suddenly on the table. But a cl...

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First Defense Spending Cuts Since 9/11

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — For the first time in more than a decade defined by costly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Pentagon announced plans Thursday to f...

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