{"id":36762,"date":"2013-07-24T06:59:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36762"},"modified":"2013-07-24T06:59:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:59:42","slug":"white-house-threatens-to-veto-defense-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36762","title":{"rendered":"White House threatens to veto defense budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Obama Administration is stomping it’s feet and holding it’s breath until it’s collective face turns blue because the Defense Budget doesn’t do what they want it to do – screw the troops and retirees, according to the Army Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

A veto of a $512.5 billion defense funding bill was threatened Monday by the White House budget office, not so much because of complaints about the level of defense spending but because the Obama administration doesn\u2019t want military spending to rob money from other federal programs.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the White House complains the House version of the 2014 defense appropriations bill is too generous with military pay, not generous enough with pay for federal civilian workers, and doesn\u2019t include administration-proposed cost-cutting measures such as base closing and raising Tricare health fees for military retirees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure there are things that could be cut out of the House bill, since it’s their practice to seed a bill with giveaways to certain Congressional districts, but instead of targeting those, the Administration is complaining about retiree health care and troops’ pay – mostly because there aren’t enough votes against them to have an impact. It’s easier to cut personnel costs than it is to tell a district they’re not getting any government-funded orders at the local defense manufacturer.<\/p>\n

The House bill, scheduled to be debated and passed this week, represents reduction of about $5.1 billion less than the pre-sequester defense budget for 2013 and is about $3.4 billion less than the Obama administration\u2019s request. When sequestration is taken into account, the proposed budget is $28.1 billion more than current spending, according to the House Appropriations Committee.<\/p>\n

Also included in the bill is $85.8 billion for war-related contingency funds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

War? What war?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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