Momentum Builds For Defense-Spending Cuts -- Foreign PolicyFor the first time since 2001, there is real and building momentum to include caps or even reductions in defense spending as part of the bipartisan drive to address the United States' runaway deficits.
Defense spending, which has more than doubled since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, has always been the third rail of congressional funding debates. After Defense Secretary Robert Gates said last year that "the spigot of defense funding opened by 9/11 is closing," there was widespread skepticism in Washington that either party would take up the cause.
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Panel: Pentagon should freeze hiring, slash management -- Government Executive
Rethinking the Defense Budget…Yet Again -- Heritage Foundation
U.S. War-Bill Delay Imperils Civilian Salaries, Ops -- Defense News
Pentagon looking for supplemental funds -- UPI
Troubles loom fo
Defense spending, which has more than doubled since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, has always been the third rail of congressional funding debates. After Defense Secretary Robert Gates said last year that "the spigot of defense funding opened by 9/11 is closing," there was widespread skepticism in Washington that either party would take up the cause.
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More News On U.S. The U.S. Defense Budget
Panel: Pentagon should freeze hiring, slash management -- Government Executive
Rethinking the Defense Budget…Yet Again -- Heritage Foundation
U.S. War-Bill Delay Imperils Civilian Salaries, Ops -- Defense News
Pentagon looking for supplemental funds -- UPI
Troubles loom fo
More News On U.S. The U.S. Defense Budget
Panel: Pentagon should freeze hiring, slash management -- Government Executive
Rethinking the Defense Budget…Yet Again -- Heritage Foundation
U.S. War-Bill Delay Imperils Civilian Salaries, Ops -- Defense News
Pentagon looking for supplemental funds -- UPI
Troubles loom for some military pay -- Government Executive
Absent Supplemental, Pentagon Furloughs Begin Next Month -- DoD Buzz
Contractors aim to trim the fat -- Politico
Joint Strike Fighter's GE jet engine: We can't afford it -- L.A. Times