claim: "for the first time since the korean war, total federal spending has gone down for two years in a row."
author: dennis ross
evidence_1: federal spending and debt. we have made some important progress on  reducing federal spending since i have been in office. for the first time since the  korean war, total federal spending has gone down multiple years in a row. also,  we've cut the deficit by two-thirds since i was elected. but our work is far from  done and ...
evidence_2: jul 15, 2014 ... for any country, a change in military spending as a share of the global total can  be attributed to two factors: changes in income and changes in the allocation of  that ... overall funding for overseas contingency operations has declined by just  over 70 percent since 2008 as the war in iraq has wound down.
evidence_3: nov 6, 2013 ... last week, the treasury department announced that federal spending fell 2.3%  to $3.45 trillion in fiscal 2013 after dropping 1.8% in 2012. it was the largest  annual decline in federal spending since 1955, and the first time spending had  fallen two years in a row since 1954-55, at the end of the korean war.
evidence_4: jul 6, 2011 ... total u.s. defense spending (in inflation-adjusted dollars) has increased so  much over the past decade that it has reached levels not seen since world ... the  defense budget fell for 11 straight years as presidents reagan, bush, and  clinton—two republicans and a democrat—brought spending down to ...
evidence_5: between the end of the second world war and the inauguration of ronald  reagan, military spending had never gone up for more than three years in a row —despite the korean war, despite vietnam. but in the last two years of the carter  administration and the first four years under reagan, military spending rose by  an ...