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The General Services Administration will be cutting even
more corners to finish the new Coast Guard headquarters on time, according to a
spending plan sent to Congress Jan. 27. (1)
A handful of Republican senators introduced a plan Thursday
that would delay Defense Department spending cuts required under sequestration
by extending the current pay freeze for civilian employees through June 2014
and cutting the federal workforce by 5 percent. (41)
Rep. Buck McKeon, Republican chair of the House Armed
Services Committee, did not mince words when asked what he would do to a
Pentagon request for domestic base closures. (7)
The Defense Department's fiscal 2013 budget plan to cut $259
billion from spending over the next five years is unlikely to damage America's
defense industrial base largely because it sidesteps major program cuts in a
presidential election year, according to analysts. (4)