CIAO DATE: 04/2011

Pentagon Resists Deficit Reduction: Rollback in Planned Budget Falls Far Short of Deficit Reduction Goals – Puts Fiscal Reform at Risk

January 2011

Project on Defense Alternatives

Abstract

On 6 January 2010, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates offered to roll back planned budgeting for the Pentagon by as much as $78 billion over five years (2012-2016) from the levels projected in 2010 by the Obama administration. By contrast, a broad spectrum of deficit-reduction plans (including the one by the President’s Fiscal Reform Commission) have sought defense cuts for the same period in the range of $300 billion to $450 billion.

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