I want to welcome everybody to the events today. How much money for the defense is enough . This began with a call i got from someone i respect who said toyo me simply how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend. I have to confess im more i ame comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity and about the defensee budget. I called my colleague here at brookings and i put the question to him how much should the u. S. Spend on defense and he said funny you asked i just finished an answer to that question so here we are and you can read all 20,000 words on the website but he wont try to read them all today. I want to start with the question i cant answer how much did the u. S. Spend, so can we get the first slide. The short answer is we spend a lot on defense. Theres lots of ways to measure but letsd start with a few basics. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget in the last fiscal year about 900 million on defense roughly one out
I want to welcome everybody to the events today. How much money for the defense is enough . This began with a call i got from someone i respect who said toyo me simply how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend. I have to confess im more i ame comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity and about the defensee budget. I called my colleague here at brookings and i put the question to him how much should the u. S. Spend on defense and he said funny you asked i just finished an answer to that question so here we are and you can read all 20,000 words on the website but he wont try to read them all today. I want to start with the question i cant answer how much did the u. S. Spend, so can we get the first slide. The short answer is we spend a lot on defense. Theres lots of ways to measure but letsd start with a few basics. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget in the last fiscal year about 900 million on defense roughly one out
I want to welcome everybody to the events today. How much money for the defense is enough . This began with a call i got from someone i respect who said toyo me simply how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend. I have to confess im more i ame comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity and about the defensee budget. I called my colleague here at brookings and i put the question to him how much should the u. S. Spend on defense and he said funny you asked i just finished an answer to that question so here we are and you can read all 20,000 words on the website but he wont try to read them all today. I want to start with the question i cant answer how much did the u. S. Spend, so can we get the first slide. The short answer is we spend a lot on defense. Theres lots of ways to measure but letsd start with a few basics. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget in the last fiscal year about 900 million on defense roughly one out
Into the night. This was soaker of the day and rain is not out of here yet. Im jessica dean. Im ukee washington. Lauren casey has been watching where and when the storm is moving, lauren. Today was umbrella day put it away and break it out and break it out again. Storm scan 3 showing us activity but strength is now winding down that is good news you see over the last hour lightning strikes disappearing and heavier pock oates of rain starting to wind down now. We have thunderstorm activity across parts of ocean county north of toms river back to jackson and lightning strikes there. Center city philadelphia after another thunderstorm rolling through over the last couple hours we had one earlier in the day that put down hail and secondary one that put down hail an hour ago. Dealing with light rainfall. Its starting to wrap up with heaviest rainfall out of the way as we look to the Lehigh Valley quiet throughout the evening hours and precipitation starting to move northbound for you and li
There are other carriers that do operate within terminal 8. This does impact all airlines operating in terminal 8. We encourage folks if they want to make changes to their reservation, do it online at aa. Com or contact reservations directly. The terminal flights are still departing. Obviously the biggest impact will probably be the weather out of jfk but we want passengers to give themselves extra time. Impacting th real quick, any idea when the power will be back on . Were working quickly to get that restored. It does appear to be some type of powerrelated surge that may have occurred at 1 50 p. M. Eastern time. So were working very quickly to get that back online as quickly as possible. It seems one part of the terminal. Its not impacting the entire terminal. Computers are still running fine. Its just the check baggage screening. Ross feinstein, thanks so the news tonight, were learning more about the 35yearold from brooklyn charged with the execution style murders of an imam and hi