{"id":35904,"date":"2017-07-10T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2017\/07\/10\/mulvaney-opens-door-to-bigger-dod-budgets\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:52:31","slug":"mulvaney-opens-door-to-bigger-dod-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/budget\/2017\/07\/10\/mulvaney-opens-door-to-bigger-dod-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulvaney opens door to bigger DoD budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The White House budget office has directed all federal departments and agencies to submit 2019 budgets no more than five percent above their 2018 budget requests. <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2019  <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/whitehouse.gov\/files\/omb\/memoranda\/2017\/M-17-28.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link: null\">budget guidance<\/a>, dated July 7, may be a sign that Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney \u2014 known for prioritizing deficit reduction \u2014 is open to higher levels of defense spending in future years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At first blush, the guidance seems to align with senior Pentagon leaders&#8217; requests to Congress for 3 percent to 5 percent budget growth annually. Base discretionary spending for the Department of Defense in the president&#8217;s fiscal 2018 request was $574 billion, and that&#8217;s projected to increase by roughly 2 percent to $587 billion in 2019 \u2014 which jumps to $616 with 5 percent more added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/budget-2018\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link: http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/budget-2018\"><b>Click here for more budget coverage from Defense News.<\/b><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The defense budget could fall in other ways. The president&#8217;s budget gradually reduces the wartime Overseas Contingency Operations fund from $77 billion in 2018 to $12 billion in 2022 \u2014 though OMB has described these numbers as a placeholder, which suggests some flexibility. <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Either way, such growth would violate spending caps set by the 2011 Budget Control Act. <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Todd Harrison, a defense budget analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that while such a one-time budget increase would put the DoD on a trajectory to grow in size, it would take several years of increases to achieve the military buildup President Donald Trump talked about on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Under the Obama administration we used to see requests for cut lists rather than add lists,&#8221; Harrison said. &#8220;It was common for OMB to ask for budgets showing how DoD and other agencies would adjust to a 5 percent cut in funding. It looks like Mulvaney is taking the opposite approach \u2014 start low, and then make them justify going higher.&#8221; <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The OMB chief&#8217;s letter said the 2019 federal budget will be aimed at implementing a government reorganization and civilian workforce cuts \u2014 and &#8220;working with agencies to help deliver the fiscal restraint necessary to achieve 3 percent economic growth over time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DoD and other agencies are directed to submit budgets in line with their top lines in the 2018 budget and &#8220;additional investments&#8221; of no more than 5 percent above their submission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Gen. Joe Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before Congress last month that anything less than 3 percent annual growth through 2023 could lead to America falling behind near-peer competitors such as China or Russia. <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the first budget request from the Trump administration, the Pentagon&#8217;s budget rose $18.5 billion above what the Obama administration projected for 2018 \u2014 a sizable increase for most government agencies, but relatively small for the DoD, especially in light of promises from Trump that he would rebuild the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said last month that he secured a commitment from House GOP leaders for 5 percent annual defense budget growth over three years as part of a budget deal in Congress that was still in flux as of July 10.\u00a0 <br\/> <br class=\"Apple-interchange-newline\"\/>Email: 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