CIAO DATE: 03/2013
February 2012
Project on Defense Alternatives
The table below compares the President’s requested budget authority for the Pentagon “base budget” in two successive budgets: the FY-2012 and the FY-2013 budgets. It shows the change in future spending plans. The comparable years are 2012-2021 and comparing these shows that planned spending has been rolled back by nearly $490 billion. This is a subtraction from last year’s plan and not from the CBO baseline, however.
Resource link: How Much Austerity in New Pentagon Budget? [PDF]