It is unconscionable that Congress would continue to waste billions of dollars a year on outdated and unnecessary weapons systems like the F-35, while asking everyone else to make do with less.
WASHINGTON -- Howard Dean is used to being an eccentric within his own party, so the fact that he's urging Democrats to address the impending sequeste...
When we invest solely in weapons systems, we rely too heavily on those tools in conflicts. Why spend $1.5 trillion on the F-35, a long-delayed plane designed for different challenges than today's military faces?
Despite often nice-sounding rhetoric from the president, this administration has continued with a wide range of policies antithetical to progressive values.
We must demand our elected representatives respond to our will, or else what are they in Washington for but to simply pad their pockets and those that keep them in power through lucrative political donations?
Regrettably, this isn't the only instance where Washington politicians have sacrificed America's security by treating the Pentagon budget like an ATM. There is a lot of money to be made in wasteful government spending, and nowhere more so than the Pentagon.
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The large body of available evidence tells us that the economic and employment effects of military spending cuts are not relevant for policy choices, will not be significant in any event, and a reduction in defense outlays in fact may yield substantial benefits to the economy over the long run.
The Pentagon, whose budget has nearly doubled in the past decade to $645.7 billion, may soon face new sequestration-related budget cuts of nearly $50 ...
By Zach ToombsiWatch NewsFor six years, the Air Force has relied mostly on a single, high-cost rocket manufacturer to loft its reconnaissance, commu...
For nearly a year, defense contractors have been arguing that potential cuts in Pentagon spending could have a devastating effect on jobs. But would it?
The United States spends 58 percent of the total defense dollars paid out by the world's top 10 military powers, which combined for $1.19 trillion in ...
John McCain and the Lockheed-Martin have been behaving in ways that parallel each other. That could be explained by their common political objectives, or by a separate action by McCain that was only recently uncovered by some watchdogs. It's question time.
New survey data released on Monday show that voters from both parties support large cuts to the Pentagon budget, dealing a potential blow to Republica...
It's hard to think of a bill that merits more public scrutiny than the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
WASHINGTON — A new government study released Tuesday says that allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire and a scheduled round of automatic spending ...
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 ...
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.
When it comes to the American military, the leading Republican presidential candidates evidently only learned to add and multiply, never subtract or divide.
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.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon outlined a plan Thursday for slowing the growth of military spending, including cutting the size of the Army and Marin...
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...
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...
