OMB, DoD Agree On $523B 2013 Budget; Budget Chicken Begins -- Aol Defense
WASHINGTON: President Obama's defense budget for 2013 implements the start of the $500 billion in budget cuts required by the Budget Control Act but does not address the additional $600 billion in cuts triggered by the Super Committee's failure.
The most important implication deduced from the chart above would be that the administration has begun playing budget chicken since it does not include any cuts that would be required by the sequestration triggered by Congress' failure to cut $1.2 trillion last month.
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