It’s Down, It’s Up; Obama On DoD Budget

Over the weekend there were reports that Obama had called for a 10% reduction in the Department of Defense’s 2010 budget. Last night those claims were refuted:

The Obama administration has given the Pentagon a $527 billion limit, excluding war costs, for its fiscal 2010 defense budget, an Office of Management and Budget official said Monday.

If enacted, that would be an 8 percent increase from the $487.7 billion allocated for fiscal 2009 (PL 110-329), and it would match what the Bush administration estimated last year for the Pentagon in fiscal 2010. But it sets up a potential conflict between the new administration and the Defense Department’s entrenched bureaucracy, which has remained largely intact through the presidential transition.

The alleged 10% cut came from what Pentagon officials had hoped to see in their 2010 budget. The proposed $527 billion budget came in 10% under that, hence the false story.

Considering we’re still in the midst of two wars and a promise to step up the presence in Afghanistan this comes as a great relief. Will it hold?

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