Pentagon 'not planning for sequestration'

Failure by the Supercommittee to agree to $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction is supposed to result in automatic cuts to government spending — with half of the $1.2 trillion coming out of the 2013 defense budget — but a Pentagon spokesman said that they are not “planning for sequestration.”

“Our focus is not on planning for sequestration,” Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters on Friday. He explained that “The budget we’re [planning for is] factoring in the 450-plus (billion dollar) cuts that we already know we have to take.”