The Republicans hope to weezil out of the military cuts. Someone needs to monitor the military contracts now that the debt ceiling has been suspended. There are shenanigans, has to be. Suspending the debt ceiling will encourage overruns, especially the the F35.
This is what the Republican Party is doing for the country. The borrowing of the USA will be suspended May 15, 2013 according to this bill. There can be a lot of damage done to the country with military overruns until then. That is three and a half months. Someone needs to sit on the military budget before the Republicans blow up the domestic budget.
On the other side the Democrats should take this opportunity to structure the domestic cuts which will take effect on May 15. But, I find it more than interesting the last few bills that have passed the Congress were not met with cuts to fund them. Hee-haw.
By Lisa Mascaro
January 31, 2013, 1:06 p.m.
Obama is expected to swiftly sign the legislation as lawmakers gear up for the next budget showdown: deep automatic spending cuts that will begin to hit the economy on March 1 if nothing is done to stop them.
The $1.2 trillion in cuts had once been considered so severe they would force Congress to the negotiating table to devise an alternative deficit-reduction strategy.
But with a month to go before the cuts begin, Congress appears unable to reach a compromise over tax and spending alternatives....
