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There are three initial things to note about the defense budget: it is not enough to carry out the defense strategy, which itself is also now out of date; it trades modernization for readiness; and it leverages innovation investments with proposed process improvements.
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Providing for the common defense is the only mandatory and exclusive job of the federal government. We must have better performance and accountability than we have been tolerating or we will remain lost in never, never land while our adversaries bask in our absence.
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First, we must update the defense strategy that guides planning and programming decisions necessary to sustain and modernize a military with both the capacity and capability we need. Second, we have to match resources to that strategy, sufficiently funding defense with a focus on true military capabilities.
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The nation is losing $70 million a day in buying power for defense during the current continuing resolution, a number that goes up to as much as $200 million a day if no action is taken by next spring.
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Our elected officials need only put first things—the nation's security—first and then agree to professionally and productively debate and resolve other important issues during regular order throughout the year.
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If regular appropriations are not enacted by January 1, 2024, defense will take a huge financial hit, which is counter to the intent of the majority of Congress and opposite of what the country needs.
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The DOD should take the unprecedented step of proactively proposing what it would need in a five-month CR to mitigate the most serious impacts while giving a new Congress time to get moving on its most fundamental duty of funding the federal government.
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The conference agreement on the 2024 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations bill is among the six legislative measures that were signed into law on Saturday. The military construction portion of the bill contains money for forces in the United States and around the world.
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While $175.1 billion in assistance for Ukraine is no small sum, it has clear benefits for the United States, our domestic manufacturing base, and modernization of the US military. And it would be eclipsed by what it would cost us if Ukraine loses.
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Providing for the common defense is the only mandatory and exclusive job of the US federal government. Yet a small group of elected representatives expresses outrage at the thought that legislative measures to do so will be brought to the House floor for action.
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Ukraine assistance is once again at an inflection point. At the same time, the Department of Defense is operating under its second continuing resolution for this fiscal year, wasting time and money it can't afford to lose.
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Congress's reliance on continuing resolutions has reached its apogee, spelling potentially disastrous outcomes for defense next year. The continuing resolution moving through Capitol Hill this week must remove the one percent spending cut trigger in the Fiscal Responsibility Act for the military and Defense Department.
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US support for Ukraine in its fight for freedom against Russia has gotten caught up in numerous other challenges currently facing the United States. However, while $113.3 billion is a lot of money, examining the details reveals the wisdom of the investment.
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