Topline Funding Senate approved House approved Total funding $750.0 billion $733.0 billion Overseas Contingency Operations funding $75.9 billion $69.0 billion (Note: $738 billion is the new total in the Pelosi-Mnuchin budget agreement) Nuclear and Related Weapons Programs and Treaties LOW-YIELD NUCLEAR WARHEAD FOR SUBMARINES House: Prohibits funds for the deployment of W76-2 low-yield warhead […]
Front and Center: July 20, 2019
INF TREATY EXPIRES IN 13 DAYS It looks increasingly like neither the Trump administration nor the Russian government will take the steps necessary to salvage the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a Reagan-era deal that led to the destruction of nearly 2,700 missiles for conventional and nuclear warheads and prohibits […]
In the News: DHS Cutting Support for Programs to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism
Over the past two years, the Department of Homeland Security has been dismantling programs to prevent nuclear terrorism “without rigorous review of potential security vulnerabilities.” These changes undermine “government-wide efforts aimed at countering terrorist attacks involving unconventional weapons, known as WMD.” An LA Times report also found “Overall, more than 100 scientists and policy experts […]
Space Wars: Do we really need to be militarizing space?
By Bryce Farabaugh, Policy Intern The militarization of space has been a controversial subject for decades, so it was more than a little surprising when, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee July 16, Defense Secretary nominee and current Secretary of the Army Mark Esper stated his belief that the United States […]
Op-ed: Military spending has many points of contention: Closing overseas bases isn’t one of them
Executive Director John Tierney co-authored an op-ed in The Hill explaining why there’s bipartisan consensus to start closing overseas military bases. The military budget debates in Congress provide members a chance to discuss closing overseas bases to save billions and make America safer. In an era of bitter political divisions, consensus is growing around a […]
