Defense Sequestration News Today

By   Colin Clark on December 23, 2020 at 6:00 AM WASHINGTON: The most overlooked story of 2020, including by this publication, is that having a president, Donald Trump, largely divorced from making military decisions worked pretty well for the US military. What do I mean? President Trump loved to point to “my generals” as if this marked some special genius on his part (many senators might not agree about to whom they belong) but he appeared to exercise a very light touch on the vast majo...

Frustration that we all have that ms-13 gang members can still get into the country. i hope the senate will take up my bill quickly and get it on the presidents desk and then also -- >> neil: i dont know. that looks dicey there. >> its a simple bill -- >> neil: its a great bill. i take nothing away from it. but in this environment, its toxic right now. do you think well be looking at a shut down for one reason or the other? >> i dont. i think we have -- today you saw the two-year budget that we ...

Tomorrow. this weekend hell be at mara l mar mar-a-lago. >> before he heads to mar-a-lago, the president will be in virginia giving a speech about military spending. you see him making that a priority for his budget, $54 billion in increased is his recommendation offset by $54 billion in cuts across domestic agencies, including the environmental protection agency. trump sees an opportunity to maybe bring the hawks and republican party who are very skeptical of him, privately and publicly, senato...

Are you trusting of paul ryan to represent republican interests? is there anything youre hearing that would be a deal-breaker for you? >> well, i have a lot of confidence in paul ryan. i think he knows where we need to be and the question is are there the votes to sell this. we need to do a down payment that proves we can do a long-term super deal. what we need to do this week, what we need to do in december is make some long-term entitlement cuts that will free up a little money so we dont have...

This is ridiculous we spent all this time talking about how much damage the other side is going to insist on inflicting to the economy instead of talking about how do we get on a sustainable fiscal path to have strong economic growth and the prosperity that we ought to have and that our kids deserve. i agree this has all been misplaced. i want to get this behind us and do the best we possibly can on the tax side and focus on the real problem here, which is spending. >> sean: senator johnson, im ...

This is ridiculous we spent all this time talking about how much damage the other side is going to insist on inflicting to the economy instead of talking about how do we get on a sustainable fiscal path to have strong economic growth and the prosperity that we ought to have and that our kids deserve. i agree this has all been misplaced. i want to get this behind us and do the best we possibly can on the tax side and focus on the real problem here, which is spending. >> sean: senator johnson, im ...

Best case scenario. they get defense sequestration, they get to raise taxes on everybody, and then they blame the republicans. >> yeah. and for howard dean, hes a man who basically believes in the european unionization of the united states. if you believe in that as obama does, too, this makes perfect sense. >> ive got the cd of yours. do you really sing on this. >> i sing on that with a full orchestra. you sing the devil went down to georgia. people said you killed the whole right wing pundit m...

Spending cuts. that is what the president is going to say. >> remember, martha, he said the defense sequestration will not come into play. during one of the debates he said that is happen. nobody really believes these actual spending cuts will materialize. weve seen this play before. we saw it under president reagan when he agreed to tax increases for spending cuts. those spending cuts never materialized by democrats. same thing happened with george h.w. bush, when he agreed to raise taxes in ex...

Number of ships since 1915 and the smallest airports in its history. >> president obama is the one that basically in the stand down with the republican congress proposed this defense sequestration that could happen if we do not have a debt deal before december 31st. the burden is on him on these defense cuts. >> house republicans proposed cutting embassy security, which may have hurt things in benghazi. we can play this game. but i believe republicans are the ones who have been cutting security ...

Tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. we cant do that. weve had this great debate. washington is this interesting place where things happen and months later everybody has a panic attack. a couple weeks ago the panic attack was on defense sequestration and nobody thinks that we ought to have a defense budget thats decided by arbitrary numbers. okay. so i ask any republican, id ask chairman steele, do you want to make sure our men and women in afghanistan and iraq and around the world have t...