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House Rejects Temp DoD Budget With 1.4% Cut

Julie Samuel

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

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The House rejected last night a temporary seven-week federal budget for the new fiscal year that would cut Pentagon spending below current levels. Because Congress has passed none of the 12 federal appropriations bills for fiscal year 2012, which starts Oct. 1, the Republican-led House debated an unsuccessful continuing resolution (CR) that that would run until Nov. 18 and trim funding for the Pentagon and most federal agencies by 1.4 percent below the present FY ’11 levels. The measure, if passed, would…

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