The defense industry is urging Congress to delay the fight over taxes and focus on avoiding the automatic budget cuts that begin in six days/.../
Still, calls to separate budget cuts from the tax debate “are likely to fall on deaf ears,” said Todd Harrison, a defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington.
“They have been making downright apocalyptic claims about sequestration for over a year now and it hasn’t stirred Congress to action,” Harrison said by e-mail. “I don’t see why this will be any different.”