Start over this year. They took up where they left off last year, house and Senate Appropriators got together and put together a package and the house is expected to vote on that tomorrow send it over to the senate and well see what happens. Were reading some of your reporting ahead of the debate in the u. S. House. Headlined, appropriators unveiled. Costlier Pentagon Spending unveiled. Its about 578 billion all together. You add some money in the continuing resolution that almost all the government is operating on right now, theres 6 billion in there and overseas money, 584 billion is about the total amount theyll get for fiscal 2017 for this bill. Thats about 2 more than they got in fiscal 2016, not quite enough to keep pace with inflation probably, treading water in other wards. Not a cut, which you hear a lot of people claiming is happening for the pentagon. What about for the u. S. Presence overseas, our war funding with that overseas Contingency Operation fund. Is that going up i
Start over this year. They took up where they left off last year, house and Senate Appropriators got together and put together a package and the house is expected to vote on that tomorrow send it over to the senate and well see what happens. Were reading some of your reporting ahead of the debate in the u. S. House. Headlined, appropriators unveiled. Costlier Pentagon Spending unveiled. Its about 578 billion all together. You add some money in the continuing resolution that almost all the government is operating on right now, theres 6 billion in there and overseas money, 584 billion is about the total amount theyll get for fiscal 2017 for this bill. Thats about 2 more than they got in fiscal 2016, not quite enough to keep pace with inflation probably, treading water in other wards. Not a cut, which you hear a lot of people claiming is happening for the pentagon. What about for the u. S. Presence overseas, our war funding with that overseas Contingency Operation fund. Is that going up i
Start over this year. They took up where they left off last year, house and Senate Appropriators got together and put together a package and the house is expected to vote on that tomorrow send it over to the senate and well see what happens. Were reading some of your reporting ahead of the debate in the u. S. House. Headlined, appropriators unveiled. Costlier Pentagon Spending unveiled. Its about 578 billion all together. You add some money in the continuing resolution that almost all the government is operating on right now, theres 6 billion in there and overseas money, 584 billion is about the total amount theyll get for fiscal 2017 for this bill. Thats about 2 more than they got in fiscal 2016, not quite enough to keep pace with inflation probably, treading water in other wards. Not a cut, which you hear a lot of people claiming is happening for the pentagon. What about for the u. S. Presence overseas, our war funding with that overseas Contingency Operation fund. Is that going up i
Start over this year. They took up where they left off last year, house and Senate Appropriators got together and put together a package and the house is expected to vote on that tomorrow send it over to the senate and well see what happens. Were reading some of your reporting ahead of the debate in the u. S. House. Headlined, appropriators unveiled. Costlier Pentagon Spending unveiled. Its about 578 billion all together. You add some money in the continuing resolution that almost all the government is operating on right now, theres 6 billion in there and overseas money, 584 billion is about the total amount theyll get for fiscal 2017 for this bill. Thats about 2 more than they got in fiscal 2016, not quite enough to keep pace with inflation probably, treading water in other wards. Not a cut, which you hear a lot of people claiming is happening for the pentagon. What about for the u. S. Presence overseas, our war funding with that overseas Contingency Operation fund. Is that going up i
Talked about last week, 54 billion of additional defense spend, we have more details today on where that money is going. We have increases at the v. A. , increases at the department of justice, increases within the department of Homeland Security for things that include Border Security and immigration control. Increases within the department of energy. To deal with nuclear triad. And then corresponding reductions, similar amounts, offsetting dollar for dollar, in other programs. The largest reduction if youve seen the budget already is a 31 reduction in the Environmental Protection agency. The next largest on a percentage basis is within the department of state and the other departments are reduced in lesser amounts. I think the smallest reduction we have is nasa which is less than 1 . There again as with many of the agencies youll see certain line items within those budgets plused up. This is the message the president wanted to send to the public, to the press, to chill. He wants more