Defense

Decline Is a Choice

By William Kristol
Published August 1, 2011 3:34pm ET
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Decline Is a Choice
Here’s the situation with respect to defense spending, which Speaker Boehner fought for yesterday, with some (very limited) success: ♦ FY12: Freeze enacted at $530B, based on FY11. That’s $13B below the House appropriations level, and $23B below the Ryan budget, which (incidentally) was the same as Obama’s original budget. Could have been worse—but to be […]

Here’s the situation with respect to defense spending, which Speaker Boehner fought for yesterday, with some (very limited) success:

♦ FY12: Freeze enacted at $530B, based on FY11. That’s $13B below the House appropriations level, and $23B below the Ryan budget, which (incidentally) was the same as Obama’s original budget.

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