U.S. Opponents To Defense Sequestration Are Now Sounding The Alarm

Hollowing The Force -- Washington Free Beacon

Defense sequester will exact high cost in morale, preparedness, senators and former officials say.

Mandatory cuts to the U.S. defense budget scheduled for the end of the year could cripple America’s armed forces by leaving them ill-equipped, understaffed, and unprepared to carry out missions in an increasingly dangerous world, former military officials and lawmakers warned Wednesday during a briefing on Capitol Hill.

Congress, in its August 2011 debt limit deal, agreed on $487 billion in defense cuts over the next decade. Failure to agree on further cuts by December will lead to another $500 billion reduction in defense spending, otherwise known as “sequestration,” the effect of which would be catastrophic, according to lawmakers.

Most speakers at the briefing detailed the human toll the cuts would take on the nation’s armed forces.

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My Comment: These concerns should have been raised last year when the debt limit deal was made .... where were these Congressman and Senators then? Not surprisingly .... within the Republican Party there is now a great deal of dissension.