Pentagon Told To Get Ready For The Fiscal Cliff

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, right center, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, left center, and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, back center, meet with combatant commanders during a working breakfast at the Pentagon, Dec. 5, 2012. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

Pentagon Told To Start Planning For Fiscal Cliff Cuts -- CNN

The White House has ordered the military to start planning for the possibility of cutting $500 billion from its budget over the next 10 years as part of the fiscal cliff, Pentagon officials said on Wednesday.

Agency spokesman George Little told reporters that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) instructed the Defense Department to start internal planning for possible spending reductions on top of other cuts already in the pipeline.

The military had been ordered for months not to get ready for the automatic budget cuts - also known as sequestration - related to the fiscal cliff that would hit January 2.

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