{"id":2696,"date":"2014-01-09T10:17:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:17:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:17:37","slug":"secretive-congressional-talks-aim-to-settle-pentagon-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/secretive-congressional-talks-aim-to-settle-pentagon-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretive Congressional Talks Aim to Settle Pentagon Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

Military Spending Bill Already Passed, But Money Isn’t There<\/h3>\n

by Jason Ditz, Anti-war.com
\nclick here for original article<\/a><\/p>\n

The Senate broke a lot of its own rules to\u00a0cram through the massive\u00a0<\/a>military spending bill a few weeks ago, authorizing $607 billion in spending, $520.5 billion in general spending and another $87 billion for the Afghan occupation.<\/p>\n

\"pentagonOfficials are used to the idea to pushing through whatever they want for appropriations bill, but secretive talks have been ongoing with both House and Senate defense appropriators trying to sort out a problem:\u00a0they don\u2019t have that $520.5 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s more like $490 billion, according to preliminary reports, and that\u2019s fueling a lot of talk about where they\u2019re going to make cuts, and a lot of determination to keep the details from going public before the backroom deal is finished.<\/p>\n

Pensions are likely safe,\u00a0at least for the top military brass<\/a>. While the initial budget deal cut the pensions of rank-and-file soldiers, the much juicier retirement benefits for generals and admirals remain in place and are believed to be untouchable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Military Spending Bill Already Passed, But Money Isn’t There by Jason Ditz, Anti-war.com click here for original article The Senate broke a lot of its own rules to\u00a0cram through the massive\u00a0military spending bill a few weeks ago, authorizing $607 billion in spending, $520.5 billion in general spending and another $87 billion for the Afghan occupation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t