Panetta: Big Across-the-Board Cut 'Would Do Real Damage'

摘要

As the Pentagon girds for funding cuts over the next decade, budget planners are hoping for the best and ignoring — at least for now — the worst-case scenario for the military's accounts.An agreement reached last month to raise the debt ceiling and curb the nation's deficit does not specify any cuts to the Pentagon's budget, but the White House has made it clear it intends to trim $350 billion over the next 10 years.