War Pay : The Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget : Information Clearing House

War Pay  : The Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget   : Information Clearing House

War Pay
The Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget

By Chris Hellman and Mattea Kramer

May 22, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- Recent months have seen a flurry of headlines about cuts (often called “threats”) to the U.S. defense budget. Last week, lawmakers in the House of Representatives even passed a bill that was meant to spare national security spending from future cuts by reducing school-lunch funding and other social programs.