However, rather than making funds available to prevent cuts to education and other social services, Obama has declared an across-the-board freeze on domestic spending -- but not on military spending.
But what if the military is spending money on something that actually harms wounded military men and women coming back from war?
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Defense contractors have good reason to be mad at Obama because his administration has reduced planned spending on weapons, but the White House has been very supportive of spending on military personnel and readiness.
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But there is other combined military and social spending included in other parts of taxpayer receipt, such as an entry for "Veterans Benefits" and a separate one for military retirement and disability.
Entitlement outlays will grow more quickly than military expenditures in coming years, but that only highlights the importance of challenging unnecessary spending of all sorts, including for the military.
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But foreign experts have estimated that Beijing's actual military spending could be as much as double the official budget.
It could easily create a larger military force than it has, but that would require spending more on defense.
Georgia's military spending has grown in recent years, but not Eastern Europe's.
On Wednesday, the House passed its version of the funding authorization proposal, known as a continuing resolution, which includes the forced spending cuts but softens their impacts on the military and veterans affairs programs.
But with nearly a fifth of the federal budget currently allocated to military spending, few states will escape some impact to their economies from reduced military spending.
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The connection between those areas and military spending served Republicans just fine during the Reagan era, but now that the party is dominated by budget cutters it could have trouble holding on to voters who have become dependent on Pentagon largesse.
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Defence spending is due to increase this year and next, but military experts say the Ministry of Defence's budget could fall by between 10% and 15% in real terms over the next six years if its current and capital expenditure is reduced in line with forecasts for the rest of government.
Boeing's purchase of Argon ST may seem small for the aerospace and defense giant, but it's the right move as governments begin to cut back on military spending.
Cuts in defence budgets across Europe are worrying NATO, not just because of the loss of military strength, but because cash-strapped ministries may be tempted to cut spending on NATO.
They know that defense equities are a great hedge against downturns in the commercial business cycle, but right now the economy is expanding, and past experience suggests that once military spending heads down, it tends to stay on that vector for a long time.
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Known in Washington jargon as sequestration, the forced spending cuts to the military and other government agencies -- but not entitlement programs that drive chronic federal deficits -- were intended to motivate Congress to come up with a comprehensive deficit-reduction plan sought by both sides.
But these figures exclude various hidden subsidies and military intelligence and so almost certainly underestimate total spending.
We could do this by taking our military out of the Middle East, but that would ave the effect of cutting spending.
Support for increased spending for the military is also up for both men and women, but most sharply among women.
China says its defense budget is expanding in line with its economic growth, but isn't directed at any other country, and remains far behind U.S. military spending.
Mr Aziz found room to placate, if not satisfy, his military masters: defence spending is to rise 10%, more than Pakistan can afford but less than the near 30% rise in the larger defence budget of the country's adversary, India.
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Military spending has increased at a similar rate for most of the past two decades, but this year's increase comes as China's overall economic growth begins to slow, with parliament approving an official GDP growth target of 7.5% for the second year running, compared with an average growth of more than 10% for most of the past decade.
Military spending has increased at a similar rate for most of the past two decades, but this year's increase comes as China's overall economic growth begins to slow, with parliament expected to approve an official GDP growth target of 7.5% for the second year running, compared with an average of more than 10% for most of the past decade.
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