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Budget

SAC-D Unveils $516B DoD Bill That Ignores Sequestration

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, July 31st, 2013

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Senate budget writers unveiled a Pentagon budget proposal Tuesday that calls for ignoring so-called sequestration cuts, boosting defense spending above the White House’s proposal, and adjusting funding for weapons programs including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. During the Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee’s (SAC-D’s) markup of its fiscal year 2014 defense appropriations bill, Chairman Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) blasted sequestration, the $500 billion in decade-long defense budget cuts that started in March. “Across-the-board sequestration cuts are forcing us to play whack-a-mole with…

Congress

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Congress

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Unmanned Systems

CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million

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