The Fiscal Year 2019 Budget in Context Introduction President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget requests $617.1 billion for the Defense Department’s annual “base” discretionary budget, which is more than $90 billion higher than FY 18 enacted levels. This amount does not include certain other security spending, including funding for nuclear weapons-related work in […]
Analysis of Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Bill: HR 2810
Download PDF version. Analysis of Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Bill: HR 2810 Treaties: 1. Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty House: Sections 1243 and 1244: Authorizes $25 million to establish a program of record to develop a conventional road-mobile ground-launched cruise missile system that, if tested or deployed, would violate the INF Treaty. Senate: Section […]
Keeping Watch: Flawed Senate Bill to Expand National Missile Defense
As the pieces come together for a 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), it is important to watch for efforts to incorporate harmful policy changes. The process of assembling and passing an NDAA is exhausting, and there will be great incentive to finish even a version that contains deeply flawed minor provisions. One such potential […]
FY 2017 Omnibus Appropriations Bill
Click here for a printable PDF version. This week, Congress will consider the Fiscal Year 2017 Omnibus Appropriations Bill negotiated laboriously over many months by House and Senate leadership and by Republicans and Democrats on both Appropriations Committees. The bill is expected to pass easily this week with support from Members of Congress from both […]
Major Differences Between House, Senate, & Conference Fiscal Year 2017 Defense Authorization Bills
Click here for a PDF version. Additional Resources: Senate Report on NDAA House Report on NDAA Conference Bill Summary (House) FUNDING, TROOP LEVELS AND POLICY ISSUES Total funding in the conference report: $618.7 billion, including $59.5 billion in the Overseas Contingency Budget [HASC Bill summary] House: Uses $18 billion in the OCO account to pay […]
