5% cut in discretionary spending sounds so small and easy, until you +10% to the military amounts to a -28% to the non-security programs.
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Proposed FY 2013 Discretionary U.S. Federal Budget
$1.264 trillion
$851 billion DoD and all other depts spending request
$525.4 billion DoD's Base Budget request
$410 billion non-security budget request
$63.5 billion 5% total cut
$52.5 billion 10% DoD BB increase
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$116 billion which is 28.3% of the non-security budget.
Yeah I can see the Democrats going for that, their sacred cow is gutted while the Republicans becomes the fatted cow.
The last time I ran the numbers I think I used 2011 budget numbers and IIRC that came in at 27%. So this is pretty much ballpark using next years proposed budget.
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