Kate Blakeley, a defense budget analyst for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the OMB document shows an annual growth rate of 1.84 percent in defense spending over five years. "I don't think they are hiding a defense buildup in there anywhere," she said…Blakeley also questioned why OMB would assume the 2011 Budget Control Act would be kept in place, asserting it was evidence of a fiscally conservative view. "Then why keep the defense caps? The budget could have called for the defense half of the caps to be repealed instead of keeping the caps and paying for them with cuts to non-defense discretionary spending," she said. "This is not a defense buildup budget -- this is a budget written by deficit hawks."
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