Defense

First off, CRFB would like to congratulate President Obama and all of those who were elected and re-elected to the Senate and the House. CRFB is...

Tonight is the last presidential debate with questions focused on foreign policy, but it would be a mistake to forget about debt. Our foreign policy...

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) yesterday released his " Wastebook" for 2012, a laundry list of government waste and inefficiency. Coburn finds 100 examples...

Yesterday the group Taxpayers for Common Sense released a report with over $2 trillion in deficit reduction. The report, "Sliding Past the Sequester,"...

Yesterday, a group of six senators from both parties signed a letter to Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell...

The second of four Strengthening of America—Our Children's Future forums was held today on national security and the national debt. The event featured...

Lawmakers, policy experts, and affected industries are righly concerned about the sequester that will hit both defense and non-defense spending across...

Over the past few days, the Office of Management and Budget is getting to work preparing for the sequester hitting on January 2 of next year. OMB so...

Today, CBO has released yearly estimates of the long-term budget projections for the Department of Defense. The DoD provides a plan to Congress called...

An article in The Hill warns that war spending may be in jeopardy because of the sequester. Apparently, the Pentagon has reversed its position on the...

On Friday, Lawrence Korb, Alex Rothman, and Max Hoffman of the Center for American Progress wrote "The Top 10 Things to Know About Military...

At Wonkblog, Suzy Khimm points to a study done by the Stimson Center that polled Americans about how large the defense budget should be. The study...