No Time to Be Cutting the Defense Budget
washingtonpost.com 2/3/2009 — Pentagon officials have leaked word that the Office of Management and Budget has ordered a 10 percent cut in defense spending for the coming fiscal year, giving Defense Secretary Robert Gates a substantially smaller budget than he requested. Here are ...

Obama’s budget-cutting tools
michellemalkin.com 5/7/2009 — Barack Obama announced that he will snip a whopping one-half of one percent of the $3.4 trillion budget. [...] Read the rest »

The 2010 Defense Budget
mudvillegazette.com 5/19/2009 — I joined in on the blogger roundtable last week ... Robert Hale, undersecretary of Defense, comptroller and chief financial officer discussed President Obama's Department of Defense fiscal year 2010 budget submission of $664 million to Congress with online journalists and bloggers during a ...

Getting the Defense Budget Under Control
americanprogress.org 4/10/2009 — Gates' Budget Follows CAP Recommendations By Lawrence J. Korb | April 9, 2009 See also: Fact Sheet on the Proposed Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Budget The Center for American Progress has argued for the past four years that the Department of Defense needs ...

Praise for the New Defense Budget
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 4/7/2009 — For more analysis on yesterday’s defense budget analysis see Robert Farley , Spencer Ackerman , Fred Kaplan , and James Fallows . All are impressed, and all rightly so. This is the move that justifies the decision to keep Robert Gates on at ...

Budget 2009 10, Live Budget, Union budget, Budget highlights, Union budget 2009 10
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Why It's Cutting
talkingpointsmemo.com 3/16/2009 — Like you, I've been watching this AIG bonus story unfold over the weekend. And though I did not see it at first, I think it may prove to be a turning point, both for AIG and the government. I don't believe the bonuses themselves are the heart of ...

Defense Budget Released
mudvillegazette.com 4/6/2009 — And Abu M liveblogs the announcement . "Okay, we'll buy the Navy two destroyers." Shokka ! Bill Robert Gates' (Bill has more money to play with) prepared remarks here .

The Partisan Divide on Missile Defense - What is Obama Cutting?
flapsblog.com 5/25/2009 — Political Cartoon by Michael Ramirez There is a good piece about the Obama Administration’s attempt to cut defense costs by reducing the Missile Defense Agency in Congressional Quarterly. So, what is Obama cutting? Obama’s budget ...

Republican Budget Includes Orszag’s Plan For Cutting Social Security
firedoglake.com 4/2/2009 — The GOP were full of praise for Peter Orszag yesterday during their press conference announcing the details of their awesome budget, announcing that they are including parts of his plan to cut Social Security in their own: On Social ...

Security threat seals W.H. press room (Politico) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 6/9/2009
Politico - The W.H. is on lockdown after someone attempted to jump the fence of the presidential mansion.

U.S. Suspends Deportation of Widows — WSJ.com: Politics And Policy 6/10/2009
The Department of Homeland Security said it is temporarily freezing a policy of deporting widows and widowers of U.S. citizens.

Probe Exposes Embassy Security Lapses — WSJ.com: Politics And Policy 6/11/2009
Security lapses by the contractor hired to protect the U.S. embassy in Kabul were so severe that they left the compound "in jeopardy," according to State Department documents.