by ADC | Mar 12, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, On Base
Here are some of the figures inside the President’s budget: $750 billion in overall defense and security funding ($718 billion of which goes to DOD) $165 billion in OCO funds, a big boost to help skirt budget caps $8.6 billion for a southern border wall ($3.6 billion...
by ADC | Mar 12, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, On Base
More details of the President’s budget request will start to emerge in coming days as Pentagon leaders testify on the President’s budget request. Here are upcoming hearings to follow, some of which will stream online: Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Chief of...
by ADC | Mar 10, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, On Base
When President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget request hits Capitol Hill Monday, it will include a boost in defense spending and across-the-board cuts of about 5 percent to domestic spending, according to National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow. “It’ll be a...
by ADC | Mar 10, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, On Base
The defense budget request will include a $9 billion emergency fund, Defense News reported, citing sources familiar with the budget. At least $2 billion of that would be used for rebuilding and repairing infrastructure hit by storms, said its sources, who added that...
by ADC | Mar 7, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, On Base
The Pentagon is looking for ways to keep military construction projects on track and fund a southern border wall as dictated by the President’s national emergency declaration. A Top Senate Democrat said Thursday that some of the money will come from the Army’s excess...