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- Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/11/defense_department_cancels_contracts/ 0 comments
- Let’s Cut Our Ridiculous Defense Budget https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/opinion/biden-defense-budget.html?smid=re-share 1558 comments politics
- Now Is the Time to Cut the Defense Budget | Let’s figure out how to do it responsibly. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/defense-budget-coronavirus-esper.html 105 comments politics
- Trump’s $4.8 Trillion Budget Would Cut Safety Net Programs and Boost Defense https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/business/president-trump-budget-cuts.html 14 comments politics
- Trump’s $4.8 Trillion Budget Would Cut Safety Net Programs and Boost Defense https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/business/trumps-4-8-trillion-budget-would-cut-safety-net-programs-and-boost-defense.html 7 comments politics
- Fake Invasion, Real Defense Cuts—Trump has treated the Pentagon budget as sacrosanct, unless he can raid it to pay for his wall. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/opinion/editorials/trump-wall-pentagon.html 8 comments politics
- Did the Pentagon Plan to Cut Military Retirement Funding to Pay for Trump’s Border Wall? As part of a larger transfer of funding from various Defense programs, $223.9 million would be made available for border-wall construction that had been budgeted for a new military-retirement program. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/military-retirement-trump-wall/ 13 comments politics
- White House budget proposes increase to defense spending and major cuts to safety net programs, but federal deficit would remain https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/12/white-house-budget-proposes-increase-to-defense-spending-and-major-cuts-to-safety-net-programs-but-federal-deficit-would-remain/ 53 comments politics
- Donald Trump's first budget: enormous defense spending as most agencies cut | US news https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/27/trumps-budget-54-billion-increase-defense-spending 31 comments worldnews
- Donald Trump's first budget: enormous defense spending as most agencies cut https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/27/trumps-budget-54-billion-increase-defense-spending?cmp=share_androidapp_reddit_is_fun 4 comments politics
- Sen. Lindsey Graham, who recently said he’d rather die than cut military spending, now contends that Americans who believe there’s room for a little more sanity in the nation’s defense budget are “a-holes.” http://personalliberty.com/graham-only-a-holes-want-military-budget-cuts/ 22 comments politics
- Russia will cut defense budget by 5 percent in 2016, RIA reports http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-russia-defense-budget-idukkcn0w80tl 59 comments geopolitics
- Senate passes GOP-backed budget plan that boosts defense spending and cuts $5 trillion largely on social programs. http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/05/politics/senate-budget-vote-gop-congress/index.html 15 comments politics
- New Senate Armed Services chairman McCain blasts Obama, military cuts - “We are on track to cut $1 trillion from defense budget by 2021” even as the world order unravels and U.S. security is imperiled, McCain said. http://www.stripes.com/new-senate-armed-services-chairman-mccain-blasts-obama-military-cuts-1.324980 6 comments politics
- "For the next three years, the budget will be based on military-mobilization principles" - Defense spending to be financed by cuts to healthcare, education, agriculture, social programs http://www.newizv.ru/economics/2014-09-25/208186-bjudzhet-nedorazvitija.html 3 comments russia
- Pentagon defense contract awards surged 71 percent in March, even as automatic federal budget cuts started taking effect. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-07/business/38354232_1_pentagon-official-pentagon-programs-bae-systems 4 comments politics
- F-35’s ability to evade budget cuts illustrates challenge of paring defense spending - The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/f-35s-ability-to-evade-budget-cuts-illustrates-challenge-of-paring-defense-spending/2013/03/09/42a6085a-8776-11e2-98a3-b3db6b9ac586_story.html 6 comments politics
- "Legislation Obama signed into law Tuesday will force him to detail early next month how he’d make the first phase of $1.2 trillion in spending cuts across the federal budget, from defense to education to the environment." http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79460.html?hp=t1 5 comments politics
- Traditionally, the US has the highest defense budget in the world, nearly five times as big as that of China. As far as I can tell, most of us on Reddit want to see it reduced. So why aren't we voicing more support for Obama's plan to cut spending? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/us/text-obamas-remarks-on-military-spending.html?pagewanted=all 27 comments politics
- How NYTimes.com Readers Cut the Defense Budget http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/26/us/how-readers-cut-the-defense-budget.html 15 comments moderatepolitics
- Will Cutting the Defense Budget Leave America at Risk? http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/will-cutting-the-defense-budget-leave-america-at-risk/252010/ 5 comments politics
- Tim Pawlenty: I’ll Cut Anything To Balance The Budget, Except Defense http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/tim-pawlenty-ill-cut-anything-to-save-america-except-the-defense-budget.php 4 comments politics
- CBS 60 Minutes POLL - Large Majority Of Americans Say Increase Taxes On Wealthy, Cut Defense To Balance Budget http://dailybail.com/home/cbs-60-minutes-poll-what-would-you-do-first-to-balance-the-b.html 15 comments politics
- So the GOP has a website to suggest ideas for how we should cut spending. I suggested massive cuts to the defense budget. http://majorityleader.gov/youcut/youridea.htm 21 comments politics
- Freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) went against the grain in his speech at CPAC Thursday, slamming the GOP for pursuing budget cuts he deemed insignificant and arguing for much more more aggressive action — slashing entitlement and defense spending. http://www.prisonplanet.com/rand-paul-cpac-speech-calls-for-cuts-from-entitlements-defense-spending.html 25 comments politics
- "There are lots of poorly-functioning military programs that can be cut, but the real path to a lower defense budget that doesn’t impact military preparedness is in going to war less." http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/want-to-cut-defense-maybe-give-the-military-a-breather-then/ 4 comments politics
- Rumsfeld - "Cut entitlements, not defense budget" He needs to crawl back into the hole he's been hiding in for six years. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/10/rumsfeld-defense-tea-progressive/ 26 comments politics
- Economist calls Obama "The Most Destructive Force Against The American Economy Today." He also wants to end the wars, bring home the troops, cut the defense budget and legalize marijuana... http://newsflavor.com/opinions/economist-on-obama-the-most-destructive-force-against-the-american-economy-today/ 4 comments politics
- UK cuts defense budget 8%...Why can't we? http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/10/20101019152017412412.html 27 comments politics
- Gates TRIES to cut the defense budget again. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-09/gates-says-defense-bureaucracy-bloated-declares-cuts-in-contractor-jobs.html 65 comments politics
- Gates proposes cutting $100 billion from defense budget http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10921450 16 comments politics
- Howard Dean on the $1 trillion sequester: "We should let it happen. I’m in favor of the sequester. It is tough on things that I care about a lot, but the fact of the matter is, you are not going to get another chance to cut the defense budget in the way that it needs to be cut." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/howard-dean-sequester-_n_2695721.html 9 comments politics
- Neocon Max Boot: U.S. Can't Afford To Cut Defense Budget - "Cutting defense won’t solve our budget woes...To reduce the deficit, lawmakers will have to do something about out-of-control entitlement programs." http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/grand-old-doves_576466.html 4 comments politics
- An alliance of opposites takes on Pentagon. Senators Barney Frank and Ron Paul join forces to finally make a case for military budget cuts. McCain, Lieberman and the Military Industrial Complex raise their defenses. http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2010/11/21/frank_paul_make_a_case_for_pentagon_cuts/?camp=misc:on:share:article 42 comments politics
- Eric Cantor is asking for ideas on how to cut spending... I say we call him on his bluff and request we cut the defense budget. http://republicanwhip.house.gov/youcut/youridea.htm 1491 comments reddit.com
- The GOP Says They're All About Creating Jobs. So Why Do They Want to Cut $2 Billion From Job Training?The irony would be hilarious if it weren't so real. Yesterday the House Committee on Appropriations released its proposed budget cuts. It leaves the engorged defense budget untouched. http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/472295/the_gop_says_they%27re_all_about_creating_jobs._so_why_do_they_want_to_cut_%242_billion_from_job_training/#paragraph2 18 comments politics
- Sanders opposes spending package. "And 16 million children are living in poverty in this country, but Congress has decided to cut food and nutrition services for our most vulnerable and increase the already bloated defense budget." http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-opposes-spending-package 186 comments politics
- Gates cuts Pentagon budget by $78bn over five years; Incoming Republican House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard McKeon says this is bad because it upsets defense contractors. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12130628 150 comments politics
- Do you know who else wants to slash the Defense Budget? Defense Secretary Gates, who wants each service to cut $100B in overhead costs and declares that there are "No sacred cows" in the military, including military health care. It's Congress who's bitching about these cuts the most. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-09/gates-says-defense-bureaucracy-bloated-declares-cuts-in-contractor-jobs.html 20 comments reddit.com
- Rand Paul immediately contradicted doubters who warned that he would compromise and begin to support neo-con political policies by promising to challenge the GOP establishment while also working to cut the bloated US defense budget. http://www.prisonplanet.com/rand-paul-promises-to-challenge-gop-establishment.html 3 comments politics