Military Personnel
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Approaches to Reducing Federal Spending on Military Health Care
Between 2000 and 2012, the cost of providing health care to service members, retirees, and their families increased by 130 percent (after adjusting for inflation). What approaches might curtail the growth in those costs?
- Presentation
Approaches to Reducing Federal Spending on National Defense
Presentation by Carla Tighe Murray, CBO Analyst, to the Manpower Roundtable
- Blog Post
Options for Reducing the Deficit: Discretionary Spending
CBO examined 28 options that encompass a broad range of discretionary programs. About a third of the options would affect defense programs; the rest are for nondefense programs.
- Blog Post
Options for Reducing Defense Budgets to Meet Funding Limits Under the Budget Control Act
To comply with the Budget Control Act, the DoD budget would have to be as much as 20 percent below the cost of its current plans. Such a reduction could be achieved through different approaches, some involving cutbacks in combat units.
- Blog Post
CBO Projects a Large Gap Between the Costs of DoD’s Plans and Funding Available Under the Budget Control Act
CBO estimates that the costs of DoD’s base-budget plans for 2014 through 2021 would average about $90 billion a year more than the funding that would be provided to DoD under the limits set by the Budget Control Act.
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Long-Term Implications of the 2014 Future Years Defense Program
CBO projects that DoD’s plans will cost 3.5 percent more to execute through 2018 than DoD estimates. Moreover, the costs of DoD’s plans for 2014 through 2021 would greatly exceed the limits established by the Budget Control Act.
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Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2014 to 2023
CBO periodically issues a compendium of options—this installment presents more than 100—to inform lawmakers about the budgetary effects of ways to reduce the deficit.
- Presentation
Approaches to Reduce Federal Spending on the Defense Health System
Presentation by Carla Tighe Murray, CBO Analyst, at the Western Economic Association Conference
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Approaches for Scaling Back the Defense Department’s Budget Plans
The costs of the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) budget plans through 2021 would be much higher than the funding permitted under the Budget Control Act’s statutory caps. CBO examined four options to cut back on DoD’s forces and activities.
- Blog Post
CBO Releases Report on Costs of Pay and Benefits in the U.S. Military
In its fiscal year 2013 budget request, the Department of Defense (DoD) requested about $150 billion to fund the pay and benefits of current and retired members of the military.