Zhang Xiaogang, the ministry's spokesman, made the remarks in a news conference in Beijing, in response to the NDAA which announced a defense budget of up to 895 billion US dollars for the next fiscal year and identified China as one of the major challenges to the US national security. Th...
US House passes defense spending billBy DEB RIECHMANN
The US Senate’s version of the defense appropriations bill provides for what amounts to a dramatic 10% increase in defense spending, or more than even the Trump Administration requested. The bill passed with a strong bipartisan majority and with hardly any debate. There is no reason to ...
Armed Services committee leaders in both chambers are pressing to take up and pass the 2017 defense spending bill, but for Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., the schedule pressure and the lack of a clear path mean it isn't a foregone conclusion. ...
, the big giveaway is when the costs of serving the debt exceed the cost of the defense budget". The Congressional Budget Office projects that the interest rate on US debt will surpass $1.4 trillion, about the size of today's federal deficit and almost twice today's defense spending....
The U.S. Congress is refusing to allow the U.S. government to pay for necessary government services like national defense, highway construction, healthcare, and staff salaries. The debt ceiling is a pointless mechanism created by Congress in 1939 that doesn't constrain spending but does make ...
' " (Defense Department aides say politics played no part in the report.) 布什政府淡化了海湾战争后萨达姆的黑暗。五角大楼的官僚们编制了档案,以支持对萨达姆的战争罪起诉,特别是因为他对战俘的肮脏待遇。他们记录了警察局和“体育设施”,萨达姆的党羽对受害者使用酸浴和电钻。一份文件建议酷刑应该是“艺术性...
Phyllis Bennis, the director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC said cutting defense spending inspires fear among many Americans.“There’s always a war, there’s always an enemy that ratchets up fear in the American people and when people ...
The bill needs 51 votes to pass the Senate. If passed, the bill will then be sent to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law. In addition to suspending the debt limit through January 1, 2025, the bill caps non-defense spending, expands work requirements for some food stamp...
“As they continue to work through this issue, I see House Republicans as the last line of defense for taxpayers, but I’m going to continue to be a strong voice, a strong voice for American military support for Ukraine.” The stopgap funding bill does not include any new aid for ...