Obama acknowledges the Department of Defense budget of $ 607 billion for 2016
Obama acknowledges the Department of Defense budget of $ 607 billion for 2016
2015/11/26 11:53
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US President Barack Obama approved the defense ministry’s budget [Pentagon] for the next 2016 worth 607 billion dollars, although they contain clauses restricting his powers to close Guantanamo [Bay in Cuba.
President Obama said in a statement issued by the White House on Wednesday evening, “Congress has disappointed I believe strongly when he again failed to take effective steps to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.”
He stressed that to keep this detainee “weakens our national security and adversely affect relations with key allies not hurt in interest tackling terrorism and extremism efforts.
“He stressed the importance of reducing the number of detainees at Guantanamo to the smallest number possible and then closed, referring to the transfer of 57 detainees in the previous two years, leaving them 107 detainees so far.
and prevent the new budget, known as the” National Defense Plan, “the transfer of prisoners items into the United States without the consent of Congress while Obama wants to transform prisoners to other countries and convert the remaining of them to a special prison in the United States and the closure of the prison.
The Obama used the veto power Vito on the previous version of the budget in protest to contain clauses he said it “does not allow for the Pentagon by doing what he wants and prevent a number of necessary reforms that will enable to update Aljeic.anthy
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