Defense Budget Battle Intensifies
By Jen DiMascio .
Washington .
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President Barack Obama did more than lay down a marker last week when he proposed $400 billion in new cuts to security spending in the next 12 years; his remarks emboldened a corps of fiscal hardliners seeking to lop nearly $1 trillion from military accounts.
Here’s the kicker: They may have a shot ...
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