But let's be honest, in a five hundred and thirty billion dollar defense budget, there's going to be room for some savings.
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In contrast, in absolute dollar terms, defense spending actually declined slightly between those two years.
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Nationally, Democrats can't be protective of Social Security and Medicaid and Republicans can't hold on to every defense dollar.
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Particularly in a period of budgetary austerity, there is no alternative to such an approach if the maximum benefit is to be obtained from each defense dollar spent.
Make no mistake, this order is not limited to big corporations getting multi-billion dollar contracts from the defense department or other government agencies.
He conceded, though, that if conservative Republicans are adamant about not touching defense funds at all, it will require taking one full penny per dollar out of the non-defense discretionary funds.
U.S. taxpayers are likely to encounter a multi-billion dollar annual cost in additional defense and foreign assistance spending should the next Administration fail to secure alliance cooperation in these policy areas.
On Feb. 27, and after years of trying, Embraer finally won the hearts of the Defense Department when it awarded them a half billion dollar order to build 20 Super Tucano aircraft.
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And I hope that you in the Congress will understand that, dollar for dollar, security assistance contributes as much to global security as our own defense budget.
If a (Republican?) president directs his EPA administrator to back off, Environmental Defense, the Sierra Club and everyone else in the multibillion dollar global warming lobby will be in court in a second, arguing that the Supremes were quite clear: endangerment means regulation.
And we supported the Smart Defense Initiative by the Secretary General, where, in a time of austerity, we are promoting more specialization and more multilateral cooperation in order to make sure that the European defense euro or krone, or, indeed, the U.S. dollar goes further than it would if we were spending it by ourselves.
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