10-21-2012, 07:53 PM
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I hang it on the the Republicans.
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Excerpt from a Dana Milbank editorial in the Washington Post, October 9th.
"For fiscal 2013, the GOP-controlled House proposed spending $1.934 billion for the State Department?s Worldwide Security Protection program ? well below the $2.15 billion requested by the Obama administration. House Republicans cut the administration?s request for embassy security funding by $128 million in fiscal 2011 and $331 million in fiscal 2012. (Negotiations with the Democrat-controlled Senate restored about $88 million of the administration?s request.) Last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Republicans? proposed cuts to her department would be ?detrimental to America?s national security? ? a charge Republicans rejected.
Ryan, Issa and other House Republicans voted for an amendment in 2009 to cut $1.2 billion from State operations, including funds for 300 more diplomatic security positions. Under Ryan?s budget, non-defense discretionary spending, which includes State Department funding, would be slashed nearly 20 percent in 2014, which would translate to more than $400 million in additional cuts to embassy security."
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