Administration Quote by Mike Johnson

“As budget cuts cripple civilian agencies and programs, they lose their ability to perform ad they once did, so we look to the military…

— Rosa Brooks

Misguided policies put in place by the Obama Administration have weakened our military capabilities and reduced the number of our forces.

— Mike Johnson

“The reduction in world conflicts led to defense budget cuts that hurt military contractors.”

— Max Tegmark

We had eight years of Barack Obama depleting our military, ignoring a lot of the threats around the world.

— Steve Scalise

While air bases and logistics hubs remain important, the Cold War-style garrisoning of troops makes less military and fiscal sense than it did in…

— Robert C. O'Brien

Pentagon's readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold…

— Franklin C. Spinney

This will be one of my most important elements. When I talk cost cutting, I do for so many different departments where the money…

— Donald Trump

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation…

— Barack Obama

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts…

— Jessica Mathews

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster…

— Ron Fournier

The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but…

— Russ Feingold

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other…

— Peter Orszag