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Democratic House Hurts Space Corps, Nuke Modernization, & Pentagon Topline
Breaking Defense ^ | November 09, 2018 at 7:00 AM | By Mark Cancian

Posted on 11/11/2018 5:12:38 AM PST by PIF

WASHINGTON: The Democrats’ recapturing the House means three major impacts on the Defense Department: The odds are that controversial Trump priorities like new nuclear weapons and a Space Force will go nowhere, defense budgets will go down, and oversight will go up, up, up.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: democrats; house; millitary; policy; trollthoughtworddeed
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Winners: Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine; B-21 bomber; Transgender Issues; Women’s programs; Expanded protections against sexual assault. Policy riders in the defense bills - maybe about abortion, overseas deployments, or immigration.

Losers: Space Force; nuclear modernization programs; a) low-yield nuclear weapon and the Long Range Stand-Off cruise missile (LRSO); The Minuteman ICBM replacement, the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent; Defense budget; The Saudis; Pres. Trump and his business dealings.

All military gains and prospective gains will be either diminished or eliminated by House Democrats.

1 posted on 11/11/2018 5:12:38 AM PST by PIF
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All military gains and prospective gains will be either diminished or eliminated by House Democrats.


They would still need approval from the senate and the president


2 posted on 11/11/2018 5:25:25 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: PIF

The House is mostly irrelevant


3 posted on 11/11/2018 5:27:16 AM PST by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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The House is irrelevant. Executive Order and threat of investigating security leaks and voter fraud will neutralize these assholes.


4 posted on 11/11/2018 5:30:18 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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“The House is mostly irrelevant”

All spending bills must originate in the House. They have the power of the purse strings.

If the present Congress made a herculean effort they could, in theory, pass the next budget this year. I don’t expect that to happen, but if I were “in charge” that’s what I’d try to do.


5 posted on 11/11/2018 5:30:52 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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"They would still need approval from the senate and the president."

There would be nothing for the Senate to approve and for the President to sign if a proposal was voted down in the House.

6 posted on 11/11/2018 5:35:15 AM PST by buckalfa (I was so much older then, but I'am younger than that now.)
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Democrat initiatives which will likely be bad legislation will be dead on arrival in the Senate.


7 posted on 11/11/2018 5:38:56 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

The Idea is that the Dems can propose a smaller amount directed at specific items and omit others they disapprove. The Senate cannot add items or amounts that the House would not approve of else no defense appropriations or only sustained at current level (unlikely). Items which need specific line funding like a new weapons program or the Space Force are dead. Riders are going to be common - these will be either trade offs for more domestic spending or military specific social programs (most likely).


8 posted on 11/11/2018 5:50:15 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: bert

The House is mostly irrelevant

Then who, if not the House, can propose a budget? No budget on military spending, The Senate cannot propose spending of any kind.


9 posted on 11/11/2018 5:52:18 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: DarthVader

The House is irrelevant. Executive Order and threat of investigating security leaks and voter fraud will neutralize these assholes.


Executive Orders cannot set spending budgets. Only the House can. And the spending fro the military will be significantly smaller as well as social program oriented with any gains mitigated by increase governmental social programs (feeding the homeless, etc).

Voter fraud has no bearing on the issue, exposure or not, will not change the House make up for 2 more years.


10 posted on 11/11/2018 5:57:21 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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The Space Force thing was not going to go anywhere anyway.

It would have been a waste of money.


11 posted on 11/11/2018 5:58:27 AM PST by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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President Trump Veto everything except the Wall


12 posted on 11/11/2018 5:59:43 AM PST by carmen2017
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And that will unfortunately leave the military financially and weapon-wise heading back in the direction it just came from ... Putin, Xi will be laughing since that means we will have no counters to their new weapons and return to being rapidly outclassed on the ground and in space.


13 posted on 11/11/2018 6:00:55 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Shut the government down and blame them

Problem solved


14 posted on 11/11/2018 6:02:21 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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No it won’t because we have funding that goes past the next election.


15 posted on 11/11/2018 6:02:38 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

It would have been a waste of money.


According to you, but not according to Russia and China, both of which already have them. Again, we have numerous space related programs in all branches, but they overlap and duplicate (which is a waste of money) - without consolidation, we will continue to fall behind China and Russia.


16 posted on 11/11/2018 6:04:45 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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When you expose voter fraud in particular elections you can remove from office someone who has been voted in illegally.


17 posted on 11/11/2018 6:05:51 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: DarthVader

No it won’t because we have funding that goes past the next election.

You seem to be the only one who thinks that ...


18 posted on 11/11/2018 6:09:29 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

I know because of where I sit.


19 posted on 11/11/2018 6:13:39 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: DarthVader

When you expose voter fraud in particular elections you can remove from office someone who has been voted in illegally.


When you wish upon a star ...

Miracles do happen

Holding one’s breath ...


20 posted on 11/11/2018 6:14:19 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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