Rep. Pelosi Says Budget Freeze Should Include Defense

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WASHINGTON—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) made a public call Thursday for defense spending to be included in President Barack Obama's proposed budget freeze, suggesting that defense contracting funds should also be part of the austerity effort.

Ms. Pelosi, in her weekly news conference, praised Mr. Obama's proposal to freeze discretionary federal spending, but called into question his exemption of defense spending from the proposal. She suggested that defense spending could be frozen without adversely affecting troops.

"I don't think that we have to protect military contractors, and I want to make that distinction very clearly," Ms. Pelosi said. "I do not think the entire defense budget should be exempted."

She referred to a "bifurcation" between contracting funds and troop funding, saying that "we all want to support our men and women in uniform, and I don't think they should be subject to this."


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[mmonk]

1. Recommended.

About time. Thank you Nancy.

[mopinko]

2. it's a start

i would have out my meat cleaver if i was the one at 1600 penn. ave. but at least applying this gimmick to defense contractors is a step in the right direction.
go nancy, and go the progressive caucus, which i think is getting in her face.

[mike_c]

3. K&R, absolutely agreed-- we should cut the MIC budget by 67 percent...

...AT LEAST.

[inna]

4. Thank you, Nancy. KR

[C_Lawyer09]

5. How about this

Unblack the CIA budget and the 25% of the DOD budget that is blacked, for starters.

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[gratuitous]

7. You're at the wrong website, djsteinb

But you got all the way up to one post. Congratulations.

Back to the original topic: Yes, I could see a freeze on defense spending. After all, I'm sure all those patriotic contractors would eagerly cut their profit margin so the U.S. of A. could regain some of its former glory. Right?

[donheld]

8. +1000