Where Obama regarded the $58.8 billion in active war funds for the Near and Middle East as a ceiling, the armed services and appropriations panels may view it as a floor to which they could add dollars, said Katherine Blakeley, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, in a briefing for reporters.
“I don’t see the appetite for major axing or a deep cut,” said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Rather, the service will adopt a “shave, shave, shave, salami slicing” approach, she predicted.
“The military can never take the support of the American people for granted,” said Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer and president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a think tank.
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