Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel suggested on Meet the Press last week that $300 billion in cost overruns are available for cutting out of the military budget. (There is also a link embedded in this OpenLeft piece that connects to his similar comment on Charlie Rose.)
This strikes me as huge--to have Rahm talking about military cuts right out of the box, especially without being provoked by the interviewer, and as blogger Chris Bowers points out, to be so specific about the figure of $300 B.
And this is separate from the money that could be saved when the occupation of Iraq is ended, which the new President has promised repeatedly to accomplish.
We know that there's money for social needs being wasted over at the Pentagon. I'm very glad to see that the White House seems to know it, too.
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=11031
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