Many congressional Republicans are refusing to address defense spending as part of the bipartisan negotiations on deficit reduction, but some members of the defense community are calling for proactive and fundamental changes to the Pentagon’s budget, anyway. Why? The alternative, they say — automatic cuts should the supercommittee fail to reach a deal — would be much worse by comparison.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=106463