While China Spends, Trump Budget Looks Flat For 2021
After three years of budget growth for the Pentagon, the armed services are going to unveil some drastic changes for the 2021 budget.
After three years of budget growth for the Pentagon, the armed services are going to unveil some drastic changes for the 2021 budget.
If you count next year’s budget, the president will be actually selling himself short. But his other superlatives are not justified.
One of Washington's leading budget experts explains how bipartisan supporters of Pentagon funding will steamroll the Budget Control Act.
Two top Democrats blasted the proposal, calling it a “blatant attempt to make a mockery of the federal budget process."
UPDATED: Trump Announces Government Reopens For 3 Weeks WASHINGTON: The Pentagon won’t be able to release its fiscal year 2020 budget on Feb. 4 as previously planned because it has been caught up in the melee caused down by the 35-day government shutdown. The budget release could be delayed at least one month. The missed […]
Trump's pick to replace Sec. Jim Mattis will be a key indicator about where the president wants to drive the department -- and the confirmation process will show what the Senate will accept -- while the defense budget may be collateral damage from a bitterly divided Congress.
Few of the experts we spoke to expect the administration to actually see the full $750 billion President Trump will reportedly propose this week. Between Trump himself calling the figure a "negotiating tactic" and the potential for it driving a $1.2 trillion deficit, the odds are awfully long.
Trump campaigned on more money for the Pentagon, but his budget director appears to have won the fight for sweeping, across the board cuts to all federal agencies, including the Pentagon.
The White House only has a few objections to this year's NDAA, and lets Congress know what they are as the Senate gears up for debate.
With the two-year budget relief ending in 2020, and a new Space Force to fund, the good times might not last long.
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
Looking to spend billions more on its top modernization programs, the Army is changing things up by spending those dollars in places that might come as a bit of a surprise.
The Marines are plenty happy about getting more money in 2018 and 2019, but are nervously eyeing the potential return of sequestration in 2020. And it's influencing how the Corps is spending that money today.
“You fix your roof when it’s sunny out, and right now it appears to be sunny for the next couple of years," Esper said. "We have to do our best now to find those dollars so we can, again, apply them back to our priorities."
“'20 and '21 is where we need to make sure we don’t kind of hit turbulence," McCarthy said. “The budget deal was great -- we had an enormous increase, and we’re grateful for that -- but this (sequestration) still looms."