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DoD Team Looking At Sequestration Budget Cuts

Julie Samuel

Friday, September 21st, 2012

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A Pentagon “team” is looking at the impact of potential sequestration budget cuts and officials expect to craft detailed plans showing how defense programs would be impacted, the Pentagon’s budget chief said yesterday. Comptroller Robert Hale appeared before the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) to answer questions about a Sept. 14 report that Congress demanded from the White House on the potential cuts. The document includes data showing the decade-long reductions would trim $52.3 billion from planned defense spending next…

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