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GOP Plan Boosts Pentagon, Cuts Social Programs

May 7, 2012

health care

Pentagon

The Republicans who control the House are using cuts to food aid, and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the from a crippling wave of budget cuts come January.

The reductions, while controversial, are but a fraction of what Republicans called for in the broader, nonbinding budget plan they passed in March. Totaling a little more than $300 billion over a decade, the new cuts are aimed less at tackling $1 trillion-plus government deficits and more at preventing cuts to troop levels and military modernization.

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Source: The Associated Press/Yahoo News