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Defense Swallows 15 Percent of Obama’s Budget Plan

President Barack Obama's $4 trillion budget includes $585 billion to sustain his national security and defense strategies. That's nearly 15 percent of the overall budget, and a request of $25 billion more than last year's enacted defense budget.

Protecting the United States and its interests is an expensive undertaking, to the tune of $534 billion for a defense base budget and an additional $51 billion to cover overseas war funds.

Obama has called on Congress to approve his budget in its entirety.

“This is one of our most basic and most important responsibilities as a government, so I am calling on Congress to get this done,” said Obama.

The political problem is that this $585 billion request is much higher than the $499 billion spending cap Congress set in 2011.

Ryan Crotty, deputy director for Defense Budget Analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, thinks the 2016 defense budget proposal is meant to correct for a few years of insufficient funding.

“Acting on what I think seems to be a broad consensus in both chambers and the executive that defense spending as it has been in the last couple of years is too low,” said Crotty.

Too low given the current global threat environment. The funding includes more than $5 billion to counter Islamic State operations, through airstrikes and the training of Iraqi forces and moderate Syrian rebels.

It also includes about $800 million for a European Reassurance Initiative, which funds training exercises with allies in Europe amid Russian aggression in Ukraine.

And while the U.S. has completed its combat mission in Afghanistan, there are still billions in the budget to continue the support mission.

“The drawdown, we’re talking about the boots on the ground, is not a linear drawdown for dollars. Even though our troops are inside the wire doing train, advise and assist and helping them build their force, we’re still out there trying to make sure those troops in the garrison are safe,” said Lt. Gen. Mark Ramsay, Director of Force Structure, Resources and Assesment on the Pentagon's joint staff.

The Navy would receive a lot of the proposed budget increase, with billions of dollars for new ships to help bolster a shift to the Pacific region.

Pentagon officials explain the majority of the budget is for investing in the future.

“We have three years of built-up demand on modernization that we haven’t been able to get to,” said Undersecretary of Defense Bob Work.

“If we don’t do that today, we’re not going to stay ahead of our potential adversaries,” said Ramsay.

In addition to new air and sea equipment, these investments include maintenance on nuclear facilities and advancements in cyber security.

詞匯解析

identify

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

vt.鑒定；識(shí)別，辨認(rèn)出，認(rèn)出；認(rèn)明；把…看成一樣

vi.認(rèn)同；感同身受

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用作及物動(dòng)詞 (vt.)

The test can identify the presence of abnormalities in the unborn child.

這項(xiàng)化驗(yàn)?zāi)荑b定胎兒是否有不正?，F(xiàn)象。

用作不及物動(dòng)詞 (vi.)

I identified with the heroine of the novel.

我與小說中的那個(gè)女主人公感同身受。

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remains

難度：5星基本詞匯，屬常用1000詞

英漢解釋

n.剩余物；遺跡；遺體

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用作名詞 (n.)

After the wheat crop has been gathered, many farmers burn the remains and plough the ash into the soil, so as to enrich it.

小麥?zhǔn)崭钔瓿珊?，農(nóng)夫們把剩余物燒掉，然后用犁把灰埋入地里，使土地更肥沃。

Choi's remains true today for cremation.

崔真實(shí)的遺體今天進(jìn)行火葬。

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invest

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

v.投資；投入

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用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)

I won't invest my money in his company.

我不會(huì)把我的錢投資到他的公司。

Everyone should invest some time in community service.

每個(gè)人都應(yīng)該花些時(shí)間在社區(qū)服務(wù)上。

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exchange

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

v.交換；兌換

n.交換；交易所；兌換；交戰(zhàn)

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用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)

We exchanged our opinions about the event at the meeting.

在會(huì)上，我們就此事交換了意見。

用作名詞 (n.)

Gold shares jumped at the Stock Exchange yesterday.

證券交易所黃金股票昨天又大幅度上漲了。

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spread

難度：5星基本詞匯，屬常用1000詞

英漢解釋

v.傳播；展開；散布；鋪開；伸展；涂撒

n.范圍；傳播；差額；幅度；盛宴

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用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)

The radio spread the news as soon as the accident happened .

事故一發(fā)生,收音機(jī)就把這條消息傳播出去了。

用作名詞 (n.)

Tv has become a more powerful vehicle for the spread of news.

電視已成為影響力更大的傳播消息的媒介。

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strengthen

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

v.加強(qiáng)；變堅(jiān)固

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用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)

He has been brought in to strengthen the defence.

已請(qǐng)他來加強(qiáng)后衛(wèi)力量。

The current strengthened as we moved down the river.

我們順流而下時(shí)，水流更急了。

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federal

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

adj.聯(lián)邦制的；聯(lián)邦政府的；同盟的

n.聯(lián)邦主義者；同盟盟友

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用作形容詞 (adj.)

Switzerland is a federal republic.

瑞士是聯(lián)邦制的共和國。

Expenditures by the Federal Government have been steadily pared.

聯(lián)邦政府的開支正在逐漸削減。

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