Proposed Pentagon Budget Cuts: Fact of Spin?

NPP Pressroom

United for Justice with Peace

01/25/2011

Secretary of Defense Gates announced his proposed cuts to the Pentagon budget. President Reagan's budget director, David Stockman called Gate's proposal of $78 billion cut to US defense spending, a mere "pin-prick" to a behemoth military-industrial complex. Join a conference call briefing on Tuesday, February 1 at 8:30 PM to get straight on what the proposals are and how it stacks up to the kind of cuts needed for a real shift in national spending priorities. Peace Action is excited that Chris Hellman from the National Priorities Project (NPP) will join us for an hour long conference call briefing. Chris joined NPP after serving as a military policy analyst for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation where his work focused on national security spending, military planning and policy, base closures, major weapons systems, trends in the defense industry, global military spending, and homeland security. Previously, Chris spent ten years on Capitol Hill as a congressional staffer working on national security and foreign policy issues. For conference call number, contact Massachusetts Peace Action at 617-354-2169 or write info@masspeaceaction.org Get the facts, so we can engage in the big debate on how much, not if, the military budget should be cut to begin to address the joblessness and hunger in our communities. Invite your co-workers and coalition partners!