Community | February 18, 2011 | 2 comments

Barack Obama threatens to veto any budget that cuts "defense" spending

source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49603.html#ixzz1E8yi7PJH

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President Barack Obama signaled his openness to larger deficit-reduction talks with Congress on Tuesday but drew a sharp line at the immediate spending cuts proposed by the House, even suggesting that Republicans were jeopardizing the Pentagon’s ability to “meet vital military requirements.”

The thinly veiled veto threat was delivered in a formal statement of administration policy just hours after debate opened in the House on the Republican plan.

And the suggestion that Republicans risked hurting the nation’s defense amounts to an especially hardball political response designed to play on divisions in the GOP over the level of Pentagon cuts.

“The bill proposes cuts that would sharply undermine core government functions and investments key to economic growth and job creation and would reduce funding for the Department of Defense to a level that would leave the department without the resources and flexibility needed to meet vital military requirements,” the statement read. “If the president is presented with a bill that undermines critical priorities or national security through funding levels or restrictions, contains earmarks or curtails the drivers of long-term economic growth and job creation while continuing to burden future generations with deficits, the president will veto the bill.”...

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    Community,   Politics,   WTF,   US Politics
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    Budget,  budget cuts,  defense spending
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2 comments // Barack Obama threatens to veto any budget that cuts "defense" spending

  • ZiggyStrange
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      ZiggyStrange  

    • That is a deceptive biased headline. If you read the article that is not what the administration said at all. The real headline is.

      Barack Obama plays hardball with veto threat

      "The bill proposes cuts that would sharply undermine core government functions and investments key to economic growth and job creation and would reduce funding for the Department of Defense to a level that would leave the department without the resources and flexibility needed to meet vital military requirements,” the statement read. “If the president is presented with a bill that undermines critical priorities or national security through funding levels or restrictions, contains earmarks or curtails the drivers of long-term economic growth and job creation while continuing to burden future generations with deficits, the president will veto the bill."

      He's not saying he'll veto any budget that cuts defense spending.
      Read the article and the source.

    • 1 year ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
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      PoliticalAmazon  

    • Hard to believe, but I am more repulsed by anything and everything Obama than I am of Dick Cheney.

      With the changes he is attempting to make to limit our rights to speak freely and our rights to privacy, by the time the 2012 election rolls around, we'll be like Bahrain.

    • 1 year ago
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