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Search results for "The Pentagon unveiled how it plans to spend 1.5 trillion requested in next year's defense budget"

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Randy Forbes stated on October 12, 2011 in a web ad.:
"1.53 million jobs are at risk (from potential defense cuts)."
By Sean Gorman• October 29, 2011
Democratic National Committee stated on April 03, 2026 in a post on X:
President Donald Trump's proposed 2027 military budget would be "the largest spending increase since World War II.”
By Zoe Weyand• April 20, 2026
Barack Obama stated on October 03, 2012 in a presidential debate in Denver:
Says Romney wants to add $2 trillion to the defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for.
By Jon Greenberg• October 5, 2012
Tommy Thompson stated on October 27, 2012 in an interview:
Says U.S. Senate opponent Tammy Baldwin supported a federal budget "that spent trillions -- not billions, trillions -- more money than the Obama budget."
By Tom Kertscher• October 5, 2012
Mark Pocan stated on October 03, 2021 in Twitter:
“The annual Pentagon budget hovers over $750 billion annually, twice that of the much debated Build Back Better Act that costs about $350 billion annually as currently proposed.”
By Laura Schulte• October 14, 2021
Peter DeFazio stated on April 13, 2012 in his congressional website:
Says the Pentagon has never passed a financial audit. In fact,  the Pentagon is exempt from a federal law that requires all federal agencies to complete annual audits.
By Charles Pope• April 13, 2012
Barack Obama stated on October 22, 2012 in a presidential debate:
Says Mitt Romney wants to add $2 trillion to defense budget that the military hasn’t asked for.
By Jon Greenberg• October 24, 2012
Mitt Romney stated on February 04, 2012 in a speech in Las Vegas, Nev.:
"President Obama is shrinking our military."
By Louis Jacobson• February 8, 2012
Charles Schumer stated on October 04, 2017 in a Senate floor speech:
"The Republicans are proposing to pay for their giant tax cut to the rich by gutting Medicare and Medicaid."
By Louis Jacobson• October 6, 2017
David Stockman stated on May 01, 2011 in an interview on 'This Week with Christiane Amanpour':
Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal cuts "nothing" from Medicare, Social Security or defense in the next two to three years, and "in three years, he does not cut one dime from the debt."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• May 4, 2011
Richard Ojeda stated on August 15, 2021 in a tweet:
The United States spent “2 trillion dollars to train and equip the Afghan military over the past 20 years. They fell in a week.”
By Zach DeLuca, Trenton Straight• September 21, 2021
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on December 02, 2018 in a tweet:
"$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon."
By Louis Jacobson• December 3, 2018
Evan Bayh stated on April 02, 2015 in an interview in Concord, N.H.:
"The fastest-growing part of the Pentagon’s budget are health care expenses."
By Clay Wirestone• April 21, 2015
Chuck Hagel stated on March 02, 2014 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
"It isn't me cutting the budget. It's the Congress' decision on sequestration. So it isn't secretary of defense or the president doing this."
By Julie Kliegman• March 5, 2014
Marco Rubio stated on April 25, 2015 in a speech at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Summit:
The United States "is not building the aircraft, the long-range bombers, the additional aircraft carriers, the nuclear submarines."
By Amy Sherman• May 5, 2015
Rand Paul stated on November 10, 2015 in a debate:
Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."  
By Tom Kertscher• November 12, 2015
Bernie Sanders stated on November 14, 2015 in the Democratic debate in Iowa:
Out of the total U.S. military budget, "significantly less than 10 percent of that money is used to fight international terrorism."  
By Jon Greenberg• November 15, 2015
Donald Trump stated on February 28, 2017 in a speech to Congress:
Says his budget "calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history."
By Jon Greenberg• March 1, 2017
Marco Rubio stated on December 13, 2015 in an interview on Meet the Press:
The only budget Ted Cruz "ever voted for in his time in the Senate is a budget that cut defense spending by more than Barack Obama proposes we cut it."  
By Amy Sherman• December 22, 2015
Dennis Kucinich stated on January 24, 2011 in :
"One of the biggest causes of our soaring debt and economic insecurity ends up being Pentagon spending. The budget for the Pentagon consumes more than half of our discretionary spending."
By Tom Feran• February 18, 2011

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