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President Obama to increase the defense budget?
The more things change…
According to Congressional Quarterly, President Obama will be approving a $14 billion increase in the U.S. defense budget, keeping things in line with what President Bush had approved. That’s something sure to anger the anti-war Left!
The Obama administration has given the Pentagon a $527 billion limit, excluding war costs, for its fiscal 2010 defense budget, an Office of Management and Budget official said Monday.If enacted, that would be an 8 percent increase from the $487.7 billion allocated for fiscal 2009 (PL 110-329), and it would match what the Bush administration estimated last year for the Pentagon in fiscal 2010. But it sets up a potential conflict between the new administration and the Defense Department’s entrenched bureaucracy, which has remained largely intact through the presidential transition.
Some Pentagon officials and congressional conservatives are already trying to portray the OMB number as a cut by comparing it to a $584 billion draft fiscal 2010 budget request compiled last fall by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The $527 billion figure is “what the Bush people thought was the right number last February and that’s the number we’re going with,” said the OMB official, who declined to be identified. “The Joint Chiefs did that to lay down a marker for the incoming administration that was unrealistic. It’s more of a wish list than anything else.”
Fox News seems to have done what the liberal media did for 8 years with President Bush: report a spending increase as a spending cut when it doesn’t meet their wish list. As Ed Morrissey notes, “an increase above the rate of inflation is never a cut, in either the Bush or the Obama administration.”
Time will tell, of course, whether these announced increases actually make it into the final budget. And I know I’m probably setting myself up for disappointment by giving President Obama the benefit of the doubt, but I’m sincerely hoping this will be one place where he won’t make good on his campaign pledge to gut the military.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
