Emelie Rutherford Varied observers are picking apart proposals from the heads of the White House's deficit-reduction commission to cut the Pentagon's budget by $100 billion partly by cutting an array of weapon systems. Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the chairs of President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, last Wednesday unveiled their interim pitches for balancing the nation's budget, excluding interest payments on debt, by 2015. Their recommendations for $200 billion in federal-budget cuts by 2015, half…
Proposal For $100 Billion In Defense Cuts Scrutinized
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