President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy PelosiWhite House Rejects Pelosi's Push to Freeze Defense Spending -- FOX News
The disagreement, surfacing mere hours before Obama's first State of the Union address, threatens to cast a pall over one of the items the White House hoped would establish the president's credibility on the deficit.
The White House on Wednesday brushed off House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's contention that President Obama's State of the Union proposal of freezing domestic spending should apply to defense spending too.
"Well, the president obviously believes that national security is something that is paramount," White House senior adviser David Axelrod told Fox News, noting that Obama cancelled certain Pentagon weapons systems in an effort to be more efficient.
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Update: David Axelrod to Pelosi on Freezing Defense Spending: "We Can't Stand Down" -- FOX News
My Comment: If President Obama was to also call for a military spending freeze in his SOTU speech (with 2 ongoing wars and the threat of terrorism in the background) .... it would have been political suicide for him and for the Democrat Party in the November elections of this year. The President knows that, his advisers know that, most memebers of Congress know that .... House Speaker Pelosi does not know that.
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