{"id":26459,"date":"2011-09-09T07:42:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T11:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26459"},"modified":"2011-09-09T07:42:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T11:42:13","slug":"kyl-threatens-to-quit-super-committee-over-defense-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26459","title":{"rendered":"Kyl threatens to quit super committee over defense cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/news-by-subject\/defense-homeland-security\/180271-sen-kyl-ill-quit-supercommittee-if-it-mulls-more-defense-cuts\">The Hill<\/a> reports that Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) has threatened to quit the so-called Super Committee which has been tasked to plan for $1.2 trillion in government spending over the next ten years unless the committee goes shopping elsewhere for spending cuts besides the Defense Department;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked by The Hill whether he would support any defense cuts in a possible final supercommittee package smaller than the $600 billion threatened under that trigger, Kyl replied, &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The senator pointed out that if the Pentagon is forced to trim $950 billion from its base budget between 2013 and 2023, \u201cthat would kill defense.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spending cuts to defense are the easy answer because Congress won&#8217;t pay a major price at the polls since cuts would effect a minority of voters in the short term. And then Democrats can always blame the next Republican president when he tries to rebuild our defense in reaction to these deep cuts.<\/p>\n<p>If Congress were to actually cut things that need cutting, like the Commerce Department, the Education Department, the Energy Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Agriculture Department, etc&#8230;, the sound bites during the next campaign wouldn&#8217;t be pretty. Not accurate, but not pretty either.<\/p>\n<p>Defense spending has no significant constituency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill reports that Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) has threatened to quit the so-called &hellip; <a title=\"Kyl threatens to quit super committee over defense cuts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26459\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kyl threatens to quit super committee over defense cuts<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}