The Fiscal Year 2013 Defense Budget: A Report Card -- Center For American Progress
Grading the Pentagon’s Latest Budget Request.
The Obama administration’s fiscal year 2013 defense budget halts the unrestrained growth in baseline military spending that has occurred over the last decade, essentially holding the budget steady in inflation-adjusted terms through FY 2017. But it does little to bring the baseline budget back down from its current level, which remains near historic highs.
If passed by Congress, the proposal would authorize $525.4 billion for the Pentagon’s base budget for the fiscal year beginning in October, a $5.2 billion or 1 percent reduction from this year’s spending level. The proposed budget recognizes that we can no longer afford the runaway growth in defense spending that has occurred since 1998.
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My Comment: This is an analysis that supports the opinion that cutting the U.S. Defense budget is not only possible but necessary.
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