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 […]
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell Quoted in Defense News
Read the full piece in Defense News here. The senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Alexandra Bell, called Trump’s claims “a total lie” in her own tweet. “Modernization plans for nuclear arsenal were well underway before [Trump] came into office & his own budget isn’t passed yet,” she said in […]
Fiscal Year 2018 House Defense Appropriations Bill
For a printable PDF version, click here. The total funding for the Pentagon in FY 2018 is $658.1 billion, including $584.2 billion for base discretionary funding subject to budget caps ($68.1 billion above FY 2017 levels and $18.4 billion above the FY 2018 request) and a total of $73.9 billion for the Overseas Contingency Operations […]
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 […]
