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Senate Appropriators Trim Overall Pentagon Budget By $8.1 Billion

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Friday, July 16th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford A Senate budget-writing panel agreed yesterday to cut President Barack Obama's proposed level of Pentagon funding, and a House committee could do the same thing next week. The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) voted 17-12 yesterday to reduce the funding allocated to its Defense Subcommittee by $8.1 billion below what the White House requested for fiscal year 2011, dropping the amount to $522.8 billion. The Obama administration in February requested from Congress $530.9 billion for the Pentagon base…

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