RSSObama wins spending battle over F-22
From: The Washington Times | July 31, 2009
President Obama had his biggest spending cuts win Thursday, going toe-to-toe with Congress’s biggest defense spenders and forcing them to stop funding an Air Force fighter jet the Pentagon says it doesn’t need. But the White House remained cautious about claiming victory as it vets more than 1,000 pork-projects in the $636 billion spending bill for the Pentagon. The administration had called the battle over the F-22 Raptor the first test of whether Mr. Obama can cajole Congress into controlling spending, and the president’s threat to veto any bill that funded the jet was decisive in forcing Democrats on Thursday …
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