Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) told reporters on Sunday afternoon that military cuts should be on the table as part of a deal to reduce spending and raise the debt ceiling.
“The Bowles-Simpson plan proposed $800 billion in defense cuts over the next 10 years, $800 billion in non-defense cuts,” Durbin said. “The gang of six also believe that equal amounts should be cut from defense and non-defense.”
“I think it is inimitably sensible for us to ask the same hard questions about defense cuts that we ask about any other program, and it has been a bipartisan view maybe not accepted by everyone on the Republican side. But there is money to be saved in the Department of Defense,” Durbin said.
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