GOP Threatening To Derail Debt Deal Over Military Cuts, Even Though Many Conservatives Have Called For Them

While a tentative deal has been reached to raise the debt ceiling, a number of Republican lawmakers are threatening to blow up the compromise over a provision that would trigger modest cuts to the military if the bipartisan deficit reduction committee the bill creates cannot reach an agreement. Republicans are threatening a “sizable GOP defection [...]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/31/283953/gop-called-for-defense-cuts/

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