Panel Cuts $5.9 Billion From Pentagon Budget
WASHINGTON — A House Armed Services subcommittee pared nearly $6 billion from the Pentagon’s budget on Friday by continuing a hiring freeze for civilians and slashing maintenance funds for overseas bases, congressional sources said.
The panel on readiness cut force structure support costs by $5.9 billion from President Bush’s original proposal of $79.3 billion to meet levels set under a House budget resolution approved on May 1.
The action came in advance of Tuesday’s session of the full House Armed Services Committee, which is expected to craft a 1991 military budget of $283 billion--$24 billion less than Bush sought in January.
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