Since the President has stated that he will be pulling the combat mission by 2013-2014…..
Why NOT allow for cuts?
Of course this a negotiating move by the White House that knows Congress will make some cuts…
But under NO circumstance is gonna NOT give the troops what they need on the battlefield…..
“I am disappointed the president has made this choice, since there is no clear mandate for it in the law,” House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said in a statement.
“Of course now, more than ever it is the troops on the front lines in Afghanistan who will bear the brunt of sequestration,” McKeon said. “If our forces on the front line are truly going to have to do with less body armor, fewer medevacs, and less ammunition he owes it to them to offer a credible way out of the pending disaster.”
Funding for the war has become the latest battleground in the increasingly acrimonious fight over the $500 billion across-the-board cut to defense that was set in motion by last summer’s debt-ceiling deal, known as the Budget Control Act (BCA).
Officials at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said Friday the decision was not up to them, because there was no exemption for preserving the war funding in the law.
“The question really is, was there anything in the statute that provides an exemption for the OCO funding, and we couldn’t find anything,” an OMB official said.
The Budget Control Act established punitive cuts to both defense and non-defense spending if a supercommittee tasked with finding more than $1 trillion in deficit reduction failed.
McKeon is just another hypocritical Republican
A bought and paid for whore for the military/industrial warmongers
All for “cutting spending”
Unless of course it involves the fat military budget
His bosses tell him to wail
And awailing he goes!