Recent Republican presidential candidate debates have featured a 30-second ad sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation in support of more cuts to defense spending. The commercial, however, is misleading.

The spot begins with this assertion: “To address the spending side of our debt problem, you have to pay attention to all the big-ticket items. That includes defense spending.” But the commercial fails to say that defense spending has already been cut multiple times since President Obama first took office, amounting to (at least) $400 billion dollars. (It’s worth noting that Associated Press reporter Robert Burns made the same omission in his so-called “fact check” attack of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.)