Gingrich and Santorum Defend Defense at GOP Debate

Las Vegas
In response to a question at tonight’s presidential primary debate from CNN moderator Anderson Cooper about whether the candidates would cut military spending, Republican candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum strongly defended defense.

“[T]he fact is, to say I’m going to put the security of the United States up against some arbitrary budget number is suicidally stupid,” Gingrich said of the budget deal brokered over the summer, which automatically cuts military spending if a supercommittee of six Republicans and six Democrats can’t find over a trillion dollars of savings from the federal budget.