Bigger Debt Means Smaller Budgets (But We Need More Shipyards): DoD Officials

Bigger Debt Means Smaller Budgets (But We Need More Shipyards): DoD Officials
Bigger Debt Means Smaller Budgets (But We Need More Shipyards): DoD Officials

Even as one official warned that budget pressures would squeeze the budget, another said the nation must expand the defense industrial base to build a 355-ship Navy.

Trouble For Trump: Fixing Sequester, DoD Budget May Be A ‘Bloodbath’

Trouble For Trump: Fixing Sequester, DoD Budget May Be A ‘Bloodbath’
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…

Cut Defense Spending? Good Idea – But Sequestration’s Not The Way

Pete Hegseth, an Army National Guard infantry officer who has served tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, is a member of Concerned Veterans for America. Is it time for major cuts in U.S. defense spending? According to at least one recent poll, a staggering 76 percent of Americans surveyed believe the answer is “yes.”…