Showing posts with label Military Cuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Military Cuts. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Your Guide To The Looming Spending Cuts: Where They Came From And What They Will Mean

Your Guide To The Looming Spending Cuts: Where They Came From And What They Will Mean: The United States is rapidly approaching March 1, the date on which the automatic spending cuts put in place by the summer 2011 debt ceiling deal will begin taking effect. There is little indication that Congress will avert the cuts as it did in January, as Republican leaders have thus far been unwilling to negotiate [...]/p

Saturday, February 9, 2013

How The Sequester’s Budget Cuts Will Devastate Already-Battered Programs

How The Sequester’s Budget Cuts Will Devastate Already-Battered Programs: Federal spending is scheduled to reach historic lows thanks to the Budget Control Act, which placed caps on spending as part of the deal to raise the debt ceiling in the summer of 2011. Non-defense spending is already 14 percent lower than it has been at any time in the last half-century, and it could [...]/p

Monday, September 10, 2012

Ryan Touted The Military Cuts He Claims He Didn’t Vote For

Ryan Touted The Military Cuts He Claims He Didn’t Vote For: During an appearance on “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Paul Ryan denied voting for military spending cuts, telling host Norah O’Donnell that he only supported the sequestration measures included in the Budget Control Act. The 2011 law provides for across-the-board automatic cuts to the federal budget amounting to $1.2 trillion, including an estimated $492 billion [...]/p

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Ryan: I Didn’t Vote For The Defense Cuts I Voted For

Ryan: I Didn’t Vote For The Defense Cuts I Voted For: Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan has gotten in hot water before for criticizing President Obama for the very same defense cuts that he voted for in 2011. When confronted with this incongruity today on Face The Nation, Ryan simply denied that he ever voted for the cuts, telling an incredulous Norah O’Donnell that he didn’t [...]/p