Pentagon Operations Would Get $10 Billion Under Proposal

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-05/pentagon-operations-would-get-10-billion-under-proposal.html


Pentagon Operations Would Get $10 Billion Under Proposal
By Laura Litvan - Mar 4, 2013 10:00 PM ET

House Republicans sought to ease the Pentagon’s pain from across-the-board spending cuts, proposing legislation that would shift $10 billion to train troops, maintain weapons and pay for operations.

The stopgap measure proposed yesterday to prevent a threatened government shutdown after March 27 would fund government programs at last year’s level minus the automatic cuts that took effect on March 1. Exceptions would be made to reorder funds for the Defense Department and free up money for the Veterans Affairs Department. Military pay is already exempt.

“This legislation will avoid a government shutdown on March 27th, prioritize DoD and veterans programs, and allow the Pentagon some leeway to do its best with the funding it has,” U.S. Representative Hal Rogers, a Kentucky Republican who leads the House Appropriations Committee, said in a statement.

While Republicans who control the House plan to pass the legislative package this week, Democrats said they will push for similar concessions to help domestic programs. That risks making the measure another casualty in the partisan fighting over budget-cutting. The process called sequestration imposes $85 billion in reductions on domestic and defense programs in the seven months remaining in the current fiscal year.

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1. du rec. nt

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. I Would Say Pass $10 Billion In Revenue Or There Will Be A Veto.

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3. So predictable

I knew the sequester would go through then the repubs would find a way to fund defense and let everyone else eat it. And the dems will cave to save some jobs and some paychecks - yet there are others in the federal govt who will still have their pay cut while defense will end up feeling very little of this sequester.

I am going to be effected by this sequester and it pisses me off that the republicans will put protections in for the DoD and the rest of the federal govt workers can suck it.