“Realistically,” in that the Obama nuclear spending pledge was made “nine months before the Budget Control Act became law, falling 4 percent short of the $7.9 billion target is reasonable given the fiscal reality facing us today.”
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE), Chairman of the Senate Strategic Forces Subcommittee, March 14, 2012.
For more background on Republican criticisms of the FY 2013 request for nuclear weapons programs, see here. We’ll have a more detailed response to the recent Republican Policy Committee memo on nuclear weapons funding and the text of Rep. Michael Turner’s (R-OH) “Maintaining the President’s Commitment to our Nuclear Deterrent and National Security Act of 2012” soon.
