Sunday, January 23, 2011

Tea partiers say defense in mix for budget cuts (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2010, file photo Dick Armey, former House Majority Leader and Tea Party activist, attends the National Republican Committee's winter meeting in Honolulu. Armey and Matt Kibbe, leaders of the group FreedomWorks, recently wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial that 'defense spending should not be exempt from scrutiny.' On Gates' proposed savings of $145 billion over five years, they said only, 'That's a start.'  (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner, File)AP - Back home, tea partiers clamoring for the debt-ridden government to slash spending say nothing should be off limits. Tea party-backed lawmakers echo that argument, and they're not exempting the military's multibillion-dollar budget in a time of war.


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