What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.
At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.
We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't overspend and say, 'Oh, that's defense,' when perhaps it isn't.
In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.
Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.
The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats.
Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low.
We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.
The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.
Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the... most stimulative to the economy.