President Barack Obama’s $534.3 billion spending request for the Defense Department, a 7.7 percent increase, comes amid warnings of a growing gap between what the military is asked to do and the funding needed to do it.
The Navy plans to hire more sailors in 2016, but questions about future manpower levels and other issues remain.
The $585 billion fiscal year 2016 defense budget request — so painstakingly sculpted by White House and Pentagon before being sent to Capitol Hill this week — will likely die a long, complicated death as it winds its way through the congressional committees, analysts say.
The Pentagon has mapped out a $2.77 trillion spending plan for the next five years, a military buildup after five years of decline that would exceed existing budget caps by $155 billion, or 5.9 percent.
We won’t know much about it, but protecting America’s military satellites and the data they gather and share is a key target of the 2016 service budget.
President Obama’s budget proposal to eliminate roughly 4,000 civilian employees in the Department of Defense is likely to raise a storm of protest from federal workers and their allies on Capitol Hill.
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