In a 344-81 vote yesterday, the House of Representatives passed their version of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a $696 billion spending bill which far exceeds the amount of money sought by the Pentagon and the Trump Administration.
The bill has a base $621.5 billion funding, and $75 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund, which includes at least $10 billion that are earmarked as part of the OCO but intended to be spent on domestic military spending.
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The bill was supported by a majority of Democrats, and the overwhelming majority of Republicans. Indeed, only eight Republicans voted against the bill, with three other abstentions. The bill still has to be reconciled with its Senate alternative before becoming law.
President Trump had proposed a very large increase in military spending, compared to those sought in recent years, with an eye on a bigger Navy. Congressional hawks were deeply critical of even this large proposed increase as insufficient, and sought to outdo it with a bigger, pricier version.
There still hasn’t been a proper resolution to the 2011 sequestration rules, which Congress has ignored every year since at any rate, but on paper, the legal cap on the pre-OCO budget is supposed to be $549 billion, which will obviously be far exceeded.
Obviously this is by far the biggest military spending bill on the planet, many times what the second largest military, China, spends in a year.
Reprinted with permission from Antiwar.com.
I find it kinda hard to believe that rule of law exist in the nation’s capital along with state capitals. The large cities have the same problem. Next will the small towns. Then your own neighborhood. Look at what we have allowed ourselves to become. It is shameful and embarrassing. The rest of the world has to be laughing.
Takes a lot of money to run a scam this big.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/07/15/the-cia-and-pentagon-behind-over-800-major-movies-and-more-than-1000-tv-titles/
Our cuntry needs this increase in military spending; how else can we continue Regime Change to slaughter innocents and install puppets to do the bidding of the U.S.
We provide weapons, money, intelligence, and advisors to proxy armies; this eliminates the body bags of our soldiers returning home to be buried – No Protests.
I love how the very people who are clamoring for the need to ‘rebuild our outdated military’ and other such platitudes are the very same people who have been behind its nonstop wasteful usage across the planet for these past 16 years.
IMO, if they can’t keep America safe with a budget somewhere around where it was when Bush II took office(about 335 billion, according to wikipedia), which would still be far larger than China’s at second place, they should all be fired.
Benghazi and stand down orders FROM Obama and Hillary!CIA arranged the rest.Murder of U S citizens.Hillary will remembered for “What difference does it make?
Trump agrees with you KoKo, but there will be nothing temporary about his new bases. Now what was it he said way back in his campaign?
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Trump_Wants_Authority_to_Build_New_Military_Bases_in_Syria_and_Iraq_/59716/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Your link is not from the past campaign.
But, in the link, the last part of the last sentence = “aiming to limit the amount the US was spending on nation-building in Iraq.”
You gotta laugh at the phrase ‘nation-building’.
Never said the link was from the campaign dilbert. Trump said he was going to stop this endless war, maybe he can when we take over the world…….Bwaaaahahaha. Forget nation building, we iz EMPIRE building.
It used to be called *spreading democracy* before it became *nation building*. Shit, we’re not empire building. We’re the muscle for those building a NWO.
KoKo- You know GS wants in on the deal, it’s a club and we ain’t in it except to pay the bill.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Trumps_Team_Overseeing_Wall_Street_Brings_In_More_Goldman_Sachs_Alumni%2C_Docs_Reveal/59710/0/38/38/Y/M.html
New boss same as the last boss……
Could it be about a pipeline? How is Trump any different KoKo?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-secret-stupid-saudi-us-deal-on-syria/5410130
It is way more than ‘a’ pipeline. There are actually three, the most recent one being the Qatar/Iran line. Qatar for several years funded ISIS big-time; now they have switched sides for the pipeline money, which is why SA and others are ticked off.
Anyway, other more important items = Israel, Israel, Israel. You should know that a high level Israeli said we will not let Assad remain in power; that Israeli jets bomb and strafe the SAA; that Israel supports ISIS with medical care, weapons, intelligence – just like the U.S., except the U.S. fumed at ISIS once they moved into IRAQ (that was not part of the deal).
How about Israel wanting the entire Golan Heights. How about Israel wanting the water resource in Lebanon.
Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and eventually Iran are part of the seven nation plan to be Regime Changed – for Israel dominance of MENA.
But Trump…….
promised to rebuild our military.
Now Anon, are you even hinting that we need the Golden Golem Trump to build more bases in the ME to “build up our military”? Put that jug of Kool-Aid down Anon, take a deep breath and try not to make stupid remarks……Mmmkay.
The Dems who opposed the bill might have gotten some help from Trump in shrinking the NDAA budget if they hadn’t been hobbling him with this Russia bullshit. Maybe not, but he’s clearly tried to neutralize some the attacks on him by cozying up to the neocons. There should have been areas where Sanders people could align with Trump’s populist stances, but they were too busy yelling “waycist…”.
Please. Sanders is too busy enjoying his “sell out home” in Vermont. Politics is the same disgusting game it always is. The only difference now being that the Fed, instead of our tax dollars pays for all of this. Of course, we ultimately end up paying for it through increased inflation, but don’t tell that to the average sheeple. Its all about the troops right? Support the troops, the same troops that are barely living paycheck to paycheck, dying for some politicians squabble, while the execs at Raytheon and the other MIC industries continue their looting.
Basically this is taxation without representation, just like the King of England, however we do it through monetary debasing instead of a stamp tax. Same thing though. You think maybe someone (or a group of someones) may start another revolution (you know, once they put down the phone, and move out of their parents basement)???
That amount is required if we are going to continue paying the way for NATO.
Get out of NATO or make Europe pay it’s fair share of the costs and it could be reduced considerably without jeopardizing our military security.
One day the US govt will be forced to sell the Chinese a few carrier battle groups for pennies on the dollar.
A more fitting photo for the article:
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The “we” with a brain flicker are sick of war and
military spending and there are no words to describe
how sick of it we are. ANOTHER trillion down the drain…
cost over-runs you know.
After WW2 Truman dismantled the military, and was caught short in Korea, for which he and later Eisenhower quickly rebuilt it, at great taxpayer expense. After Korea the military was downsized again, and oops, caught short again for Vietnam, which speaks for itself. Gerald Ford gutted the military in 1975, after the fall of Saigon. One noted example was the reduction in force by giving 50,000 Warrant Officer helicopter pilots their walking papers in one day (June 1st 1975). Jimmy Carter continued the hibernation of the uniforms, and oops again, Reagan was caught short to fight the evil empire of the Soviet Union, for which he started the largest military buildup in military history. Bush Sr. continued this until after the first Gulf War, then Clinton once again cut the military in half. Oops of all oops, Bush Jr. was behind the eight ball for fighting terrorism after the Government orchestrated 9-11 sent us to financial hell, and he launched an even larger buildup than Reagan. Obama, the community organizer, downsized the fighting force, and now Trump is building it up again. It is all bullshit, nothing more or less. I wore the uniform for six years, and such waste of tax payer’s money has never existed anywhere on earth as you will find in the Pentagon. It is a never ending cycle with the working class footing the bills. If the Pentagon were to vanish from the face of the earth then the earth would be a much better place. God help us all, because when the music stops…