defense budget

基本解釋

Would increase numbers in Army and Marines and spend more on defense budget.
將增加軍隊和海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊的人數(shù)，增加防務預算的開支。
Congress cuts shortwave broadcasts to save the equivalent of one hour of the defense budget.
國會砍掉了短波廣播，只為節(jié)省國防部一個小時的開支。
A new one is the transition to an all-volunteer army, which will require transferring resources from military investment to personnel or increasing the defense budget.
還有一項新的轉(zhuǎn)變是軍隊轉(zhuǎn)成志愿軍，這要求將資源由軍事投入轉(zhuǎn)到人事上，這也意味著增加防御預算。

President Obama had threatened to veto his own defense budget if the Congress added $1.75 billion to produce more F-22 Raptor aircraft.
Every dollar of waste in our defense budget is a dollar we can't spend to support our troops or prepare for future threats or protect the American people,".
"Even though the Department of Defense is exempt from the budget freeze, it is not exempt from budget common sense."

Finally, Washington should stop treating the defense budget as a form of foreign aid.
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