Numbers Wanted. As House Republicans and Democrats in the Senate and White House remain at odds last Friday over dueling deficit-reducing plans, Pentagon watchers try to deduce the amount of defense cuts in each proposal. The plans by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), as of late last week, both call for roughly $1 trillion in discretionary spending cuts over 10 years but don’t specify reductions to the Pentagon’s base, non-war budget within those…
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