Because of the so-called supercommittee’s inability to recommend just over a trillion dollars of savings from the federal budget over the next ten years, $600 billion worth of cuts to military spending will automatically be sequestered beginning in 2013. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is urging President Obama to prevent this from happening.

In an interview over the weekend, Romney stated, according to the Hill: “I’m calling on the president to say no way for those cuts, restore the $600 billion into the military and take that amount and eliminate it from other programs.”