Friday, February 1, 2008

Highlights of Congressional Action in 2007 on National Security

Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) Program (corrected Feb. 4)

  • Administration Request: $88.8 million for the Department of Energy; $30 million for the Department of Defense
  • Final Action: $0 for the Department of Energy; $15 million for the Department of Defense
Reprocessing Nuclear Waste
  • Administration Request: $405 million
  • Final Action: $179 million (as part of Department of Energy Appropriations)
Total Funding for Nonproliferation Programs (including programs funded through the Defense Department, State Department, and Department of Energy)
  • Administration Request: 3.36 billion
  • Final Action: 3.683 billion
Notable Threat Reduction Programs Included Within the Above Totals
Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar Program)
  • Administration Request: $348 million
  • Final Action: $428 million
Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI)
  • Administration Request: $115.5 million
  • Final Action: $195 million (as part of Department of Energy appropriations)
International Nuclear Material Protection & Cooperation
  • Administration Request: $371 million
  • Final Action: $603.2 million (as part of Department of Energy appropriations)
Space Test Bed (i.e. space-based missile defense)
  • Administration Request: $10 million
  • Final Action: $0
Missile Defense Programs
  • Administration Request: $10.3 billion (includes missile defense, research and development, and procurement)
  • Final Action: $9.9 billion ($85 million was ultimately cut from the $310 million requested to begin deployment of anti-missile interceptors in Poland and an associated radar in the Czech Republic)
Conventional Trident Modification Program (to equip Trident II submarine-launched long-range missiles with non-nuclear warheads)
  • Administration Request: $175 million
  • Final Action: $0 ($100 million was appropriated solely for alternatives to the Conventional Trident Modification Program)
Democracy Promotion in Iran (i.e. regime change slush fund)
  • Administration Request: $108.71 million
  • Final Action: $60 million (as part of Foreign Operations Appropriations)
Total Defense Spending (excluding the conduct of ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan)
  • Administration Request: $452.2 billion
  • Final Action: $448.7 billion
Iraq and Afghanistan War Cost
  • Administration Request: $196 billion in Supplemental Appropriations bill
  • Final Action thus far: $87 billion (including $70 billion for general military operations and nearly $17 billion for Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles)

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