The number of Air Force bombers and transport planes will shrink dramatically, military families will suffer, and Texas will especially feel the pain if Congress doesn't agree on overall budget cuts, according to a Republican report.The reason is that if the overall cuts aren't made, automatic reductions in military spending kick in/.../
A defense budget analyst said the HASC Republican report shows a worst case of a worst-case scenario."It's what happens if the worst-case cuts occur, and the cuts are implemented in the worst possible way," said Todd Harrison of the nonpartisan, independent Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.If the automatic cuts are triggered, the DOD will go back to 2007 funding levels, Harrison said. That would be tough for the DOD to handle since the military is used to budgets that grow annually."But it would not be the end of the world," Harrison said.