2013 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:23:08 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: "Obama Budget Calls for Pentagon Base Closures"
 
Obama Budget Calls for Pentagon Base Closures


By: Greg Richter
Newsmax
April 10, 2013

The Pentagon is requesting $2.4 billion to fund base closures that would start in 2015, and the GOP is already rejecting it.

The Defense Department’s proposal, part of President Barack Obama’s budget plan unveiled Wednesday, would save money in the long term by trimming its “excess capacity” in property.

But base closures are a political hot button, and some Republicans rejected the defense budget even before Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel officially introduced it, Politico reports.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/pentagon-base-closures-obama/2013/04/10/id/498893

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