Defense

Continuing on in our blog series, we will be discussing discretionary spending proposals in the President's budget. The FY 2013 budget was notable for...

Military pensions for high-ranking officers are going up significantly, according to a USA Today article. Due to a change in the Defense Authorization...

Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta fleshed out the widely-anticipated FY 2013 defense budget. The budget showed to some extent how the Obama...

Update: The American College of Physicians has also called for eliminating the SGR and the sequester and partially paying for them with war savings...

Both CBO and OMB in the last week released sequestration reports, technical reports that detail whether the government is adhering to discretionary...

Playoffs in Full Swing – The Packers packed it in; the Broncos got busted; the Saints went marching out; and Houston had a problem as the NFL Playoffs...

As we mentioned on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was scheduled to roll out the strategic outline for the Pentagon's future. Earlier today...

According to today's New York Times, a report from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will be revealed this week on how the Pentagon will meet its...

One of the most popular budget gimmicks in Washington right now is the war savings gimmick. Because CBO assumes that discretionary spending grows with...

Two more recent recommendations have been added to our Super Committee submissions tracker, dealing with defense and health care. The first comes from...

Two more submissions have recently been made to the Super Committee, adding to what is becoming an interesting list of ideas for them to draw...

Congress has a long checklist of things it has to do by the end of September. On Tuesday, it informally crossed one thing off when the House passed a...