Click here for a PDF version. The Fiscal 2018 budget outline presented by the Trump Administration includes a Pentagon spending request that is unlikely to please many members of Congress. Some will contend that the $52 billion increase to the Department of Defense compared to current FY 2017 levels is too low, while others will […]
Brief Analysis of Fiscal Year 2017 Defense Appropriations Conference Report
Click to view a PDF version of this factsheet. On March 2, 2017, the House Appropriations Committee released a copy of the Fiscal Year 2017 Defense Appropriations conference report. The House is scheduled to take up the conference report the week of March 6; the Senate could take up the measure sometime after that. Currently, […]
Executive Director John Tierney quoted in Mint Press News
Read the full piece here. “The budget as proposed is not going to pass ‘as is,’ since it is unrealistic and will not get enough support in Congress,” said John Tierney, who represented Massachusetts’s sixth congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1997 until 2015. He is now executive director of the Council for […]
Executive Director John Tierney’s Op-Ed in The National Interest
Read the full piece in The National Interest. The Pentagon’s financial practices breed inefficiency, lack accountability, and would never be accepted in a corporate boardroom. President Trump’s focus on wasteful Pentagon programs is a positive step, but his calls for more funding without preconditions will only increase the federal debt without improving national security whatsoever. […]
President Trump’s Call for “Greatest” Military Buildup is Unaffordable and Unnecessary
President Trump’s call for “one of the greatest military build-ups in American history,” without explaining how he will pay for it, willfully ignores the current Pentagon budget that is larger than the Cold War average and breeds waste, fraud, and abuse. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hazel Correa hcorrea@armscontrolcenter.org 202.546.0795 x2115 Washington, DC – President Donald Trump, speaking […]
