The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Unpacking the FY 15 Defense Budget

National Security Network and the Pentagon Budget Campaign

EVENT TIME AND LOCATION

Friday, March 14
3:00-4:00 PM

Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2212

ABOUT THE EVENT

This week the Pentagon released its FY 15 budget, totaling $495.6 billion, setting a $79.4 billion placeholder for the Overseas Contingency Operations fund, and providing a $26 billion wish list in an unfunded request. The essentials of the budget help to rebalance U.S. armed forces to meet future threats after a decade of costly stability operations and make progress towards finding efficiency savings. Yet, serious budget concerns remain, especially the use of war funding to skirt the caps imposed by the Budget Control Act (BCA) that have already been increased for this year by the Ryan-Murray Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. Beyond 2015, the Pentagon’s intentions to increase spending by $115 billion over the caps during 2016-2020 threaten to force further rounds of sequestration and are not in line with national security needs. Join the National Security Network and the Pentagon Budget Campaign for an expert panel discussion that takes a critical look at the FY 15 Pentagon budget.

Featuring Remarks by,

Chris Preble
Vice President, Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute

Russell Rumbaugh
Director,Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense, Stimson Center

Pete Sepp
Executive Vice President, National Taxpayers Union

Moderated by,

Wendy Jordan
Senior Policy Analyst, Taxpayers for Common Sense

 

RSVP FOR THE EVENT

Please RSVP with Amanda Bowen, Director of Congress and Coalitions at the National Security Network at abowen@nsnetwork.org.

Refreshments provided. NO INTERNS PLEASE.