{"id":36895,"date":"2013-08-01T07:51:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T11:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36895"},"modified":"2013-08-01T07:51:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T11:51:20","slug":"hagel-forecasts-deep-cuts-in-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36895","title":{"rendered":"Hagel forecasts deep cuts in defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the other day when we read at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36830\">Fox News<\/a> that the White House was not willing to discuss domestic spending cuts with Congress? Well, apparently, they&#8217;re not as reticent about implementing cuts to defense, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2013\/08\/01\/hagel-forecasts-massive-cuts-to-troop-numbers.html#.UfpD0Elm8uI.facebook\">Military.com<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army would shrink to 380,000 troops, the Marines Corps to 150,000. The Navy would lose three carriers, and the Air Force would begin mothballing its B-52 bomber fleet under a worst-case budget scenario outlined Wednesday by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Tricare fees would go up, housing allowances would be slashed, pay raises would be scaled back, and commissary subsidies would be reduced, Hagel said &#8212; unless Congress and the White House can agree to lift the sequestration deficit-reduction process that is projected to take $500 billion out of defense budgets over the next 10 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s Congress fault because the White House won&#8217;t cut spending for buying votes from their constituency, but they&#8217;re fine with letting defense slide into a big black hole from which some future Conservative administration will have to dig us out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the other day when we read at Fox News that the White House was not &hellip; <a title=\"Hagel forecasts deep cuts in defense\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36895\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hagel forecasts deep cuts in defense<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36895","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=36895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}