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FY ’15 Budget Likely To Set Policy on Nuclear Weapons, Active/Reserve Balance, Analyst Says

FY ’15 Budget Likely To Set Policy on Nuclear Weapons, Active/Reserve Balance, Analyst Says
Lawrence Korb, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a former assistant secretary of defense (manpower, reserve affairs, installations, and logistics), spoke Tuesday afternoon about what will likely be included in the upcoming fiscal year 2015 budget request.

With the Pentagon set to unveil its fiscal year 2015 budget request on March 4--having the benefits of knowing its topline and being able to avoid across-the-board cuts--analysts are trying to predict how the Defense Department will trim its budget to stay within the $520 billion cap. For Lawrence Korb, a former assistant secretary of defense and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, money equals policy and therefore the FY ’15 budget will reflect the Obama administration’s…

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