Jan 25, 2016 ... Trashing Obama and arguing that he has failed to spend enough on defense has  become a staple for Republican presidential hopefuls. ... And in 2013 automatic  budget cuts known as sequestration kicked in, forcing across-the-board  reductions that led to widespread concern the military services would be ...
Oct 24, 2012 ... "While both parties are culpable for sequestration because the Budget Control  Act passed Congress, the president proposed it originally and ultimately ... But it  was Obama's negotiating team that came up with the idea for defense cuts in  2011, though they were intended to prod Congress to come up with a ...
Jan 8, 2017 ... A new poll by Military Times and Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and  Military Families reveals a complex relationship between the troops and their  commander in chief.
Dec 14, 2015 ... Republican candidates have portrayed the country's military spending as  woefully inadequate under the Obama administration. ... Sequestration refers to  the framework for automatic, across-the-board cuts to both military and non- military spending that were originally designed to force bipartisan negotiators ...
The Budget Control Act of 2011 is a federal statute in the United States that was  signed into law by President Barack Obama on August 2, 2011. The Act brought  conclusion to the United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011. The law involves the  introduction of several complex mechanisms, such as creation of the  Congressional ...
Military spending cuts, known as the sequester, were President Barack Obama’s idea.