As Pentagon leaders defended their budget that ignores a potential half trillion dollar cut in spending reductions, a key senator argued the administration’s fiscal year 2013 proposal renders those cuts moot. During the first congressional hearing on the Pentagon’s $525.4 billion budget plan, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta found himself yesterday in the now-familiar position of decrying the so-called sequestration cuts to planned defense spending while explaining why the administration didn’t budget for them in the FY ’13 budget it released Monday.…
SASC Scrutinizes Obama Approach To DoD Cuts
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