A key Senate committee called for cutting the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2012 defense budget request by $26 billion yesterday, as the end of the fiscal year neared and a deficit panel prepared to weigh additional budget cuts today. The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) set its so-called 302(b) allocations for its appropriations bills yesterday for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. It wants to give the Pentagon $513 billion, or $26 billion below the White House’s initial request of $539…
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