Analysis: DOD budget and the new debt bill

There is fact, and there is fiction, in defense spending under the debt deal says Winslow Wheeler, Director at the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for...

The debt deal might not cut back the DOD’s budget as much as many people think. Winslow Wheeler is the Director at the Straus Military Reform Project, Center for Defense Information. He’s a former Capitol Hill budget expert, and he has some thoughts about how the debt limit deal might affect the Pentagon.

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