U.S. House Chairman Warns of Impact of Increasing Defense Cuts
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The chairman of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee is warning against indiscriminate cuts in defense spending without a national security review to inform any budget reductions.
“If you are going to do it responsibly, that’s what you do instead of throwing out a number,” California Republican Howard P. “Buck” McKeon told reporters in Washington yesterday. “You’d have some kind of idea of what the impact of that number would be.”