WH: Obama has troops’ backs on bonus clawbacks

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The White House said Wednesday that President Obama wholeheartedly supports the Pentagon’s decision to suspend efforts to collect improperly awarded enlistment bonuses given to some members of the California National Guard.

“When a promise is made to our men and women in uniform, we should keep it,” presidential press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday.

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