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Budget 2020: A CR, Sequestration And Some Compromises?

Budget 2020: A CR, Sequestration And Some Compromises?
Budget 2020: A CR, Sequestration And Some Compromises?

The White House defense budget for 2020 falls short of commitments made and actual requirements to meet the military’s strategy, but it begins to shift priorities and start the long process of investing in long-term competition with China and Russia. Washington still lacks the budget details for another week, but here are some initial reflections…

Trump’s Industrial Base Report Blames China, Sequestration

Trump’s Industrial Base Report Blames China, Sequestration
Trump’s Industrial Base Report Blames China, Sequestration

Congress and China have emerged as the primary culprits for the weakening the US defense industrial base. Those are the most striking findings of a new White House report that takes a deep-dive into the state of defense manufacturing in the United States, sounding alarm bells over the decline in capability and the rise of China’s industrial might.

Trump WH Makes It Official: Bigger Navy, Air Force & ‘End’ To Sequestration:

Trump WH Makes It Official: Bigger Navy, Air Force & ‘End’ To Sequestration:
Trump WH Makes It Official: Bigger Navy, Air Force & ‘End’ To Sequestration:

WASHINGTON: Soon after President Donald Trump took the oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution,” the White House posted two documents declaring they would boost the size of the Navy and Air Force, increase our offensive and defensive cyber capabilities and end sequestration. In the first document, Making Our Military Strong Again, the Trump Administration…

Four Service Chiefs Say They Can’t Defend US Under Sequestration

Four Service Chiefs Say They Can’t Defend US Under Sequestration
Four Service Chiefs Say They Can’t Defend US Under Sequestration

WASHINGTON: Today, we got a very clear look at the biggest problem with sequestration for the military. If the Budget Control Act goes into full effect, the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines told the Senate Armed Services Committee today, they will not be able to protect the United States as they are…

Will Army Troop Cuts Be Congress’s Wake-Up Call On Sequestration?

Will Army Troop Cuts Be Congress’s Wake-Up Call On Sequestration?
Will Army Troop Cuts Be Congress’s Wake-Up Call On Sequestration?

WASHINGTON: Army officers and officials hit Capitol Hill this afternoon to brief congressional staff on the coming round of personnel cuts. We’ve known for over a year that the Army would cut 40,000 active-duty soldiers — going down from 490,000 troops to 450,000 — but now the service is finally saying which units get cut. Further,…

House GOP Splits On Defense Sequestration

House GOP Splits On Defense Sequestration
House GOP Splits On Defense Sequestration

CAPITOL HILL: Tensions within the GOP over the mandatory budget caps set by the Budget Control Act burst into the open today. The chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee repeatedly warned colleagues and the leaders of the Air Force this morning that they had no choice and must live within the Budget Control Act’s spending limits. Then,…

Sequestration: Don’t Believe All The Hype

Sequestration: Don’t Believe All The Hype
Sequestration: Don’t Believe All The Hype

Bob Hale regularly demonstrated his better qualities during testimony before Congress, delivering highly complex facts and judgments about the Defense Department’s spending and budgets to the public with a knowing humor delivered with the sort of gravelly voice you’d expect from one of those old country lawyers.  Hale served as DoD comptroller from 2009 to 2014, and, before…

Post Election: Kendall Glum On Chances To Scrap Sequestration

Post Election: Kendall Glum On Chances To Scrap Sequestration
Post Election: Kendall Glum On Chances To Scrap Sequestration

UPDATED: AEI’s Eaglen Argues Mini Budget Deal Likely DSAN DIEGO: The day after an election should be about hope. It should be — except maybe for the losers — a time to celebrate possibilities. Well, so much for the couple of hours of slumbering hope we all had after going to bed late last night. Frank…

Shyu On GCV, Upgrades, Sequestration; US ‘Overmatch’ At Stake

Shyu On GCV, Upgrades, Sequestration; US ‘Overmatch’ At Stake
Shyu On GCV, Upgrades, Sequestration; US ‘Overmatch’ At Stake

AUSA: The Honorable Shyu, as everyone in the military calls the head of Army acquisition, is often bright, humorous and insightful. Today, she got passionate in public, clearly frustrated at the painful limits that the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration have forced her to adopt. American military power has traditionally rested on technological overmatch. We…

Clean CR, Sequestration Hopes: Fall Hill Predictions

WASHINGTON: Summer is done. Elections loom. Senators and representatives spent August wining and dining donors and kissing babies in pursuit of a job. In the next few days most of Capitol Hill’s workforce will return from the summer recess and most efforts will be focused on winning reelection and ensuring the primacy of whichever tribe one…

Stunned By Cantor’s Loss, HASC Leaders Will Still Battle Sequestration: Rep. Rogers

Stunned By Cantor’s Loss, HASC Leaders Will Still Battle Sequestration: Rep. Rogers
Stunned By Cantor’s Loss, HASC Leaders Will Still Battle Sequestration: Rep. Rogers

CAPITOL HILL: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor isn’t physically absent from here yet, but he is close to politically dead after last night’s stunning political defeat by a little known Tea Party supporter from the southern Virginia constituency. I spoke to half a dozen close watchers of defense politics this morning and all but one…

HASC Debates Sequestration’s ‘Terrible Dilemma’: A Ready Force Or A Large One

HASC Debates Sequestration’s ‘Terrible Dilemma’: A Ready Force Or A Large One
HASC Debates Sequestration’s ‘Terrible Dilemma’: A Ready Force Or A Large One

CAPITOL HILL: “Given sequestration, given all the cuts…we can have a larger force or we can have a ready force,” said Rep. Adam Smith. “I’m going to choose the latter.” But the 2015 National Defense Authorization markup that the House Armed Services Committee will pass sometime tonight raids $1.4 billion from operations, maintenance, and training funds.…

Congress Better ‘Step Up’ On Sequestration: AIA Chief Marion Blakey

Congress Better ‘Step Up’ On Sequestration: AIA Chief Marion Blakey
Congress Better ‘Step Up’ On Sequestration: AIA Chief Marion Blakey

Just hours before the Senate is set to vote on the last-ditch budget deal, the head of the powerful Aerospace Industries Association complimented Congress for coming to its senses – but, said Marion Blakey, this had better be just the beginning. “I personally do not believe the American public likes to have the wool pulled…

Pentagon Comptroller Hale ‘Hopeful’ For Sequestration ‘Micro-Deal’

WASHINGTON: As the House and Senate budget committees confer behind closed doors, the Pentagon’s top budgeteer says that even though he doesn’t know what’s going on he still has hope. “I’ve got my fingers crossed,” Robert Hale, the Defense Department comptroller, told the Defense One conference here this afternoon. “I remain at least cautiously optimistic…

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