“Let me make it clear that this uncertainty puts at risk our ability to effectively fulfil all of our missions,” said Chuck Hagel, the new defence secretary. “We will be forced to assume more risk, with steps that will progressively have far-reaching effects.”
For the Pentagon to make its required $46 billion in cuts, he said that four Navy air wings would gradually stop flying, the Air Force would immediately cut flying hours, the Army would reduce training and nearly all the department’s 800,000 civilian workers would be required to take unpaid leave.
But Republicans argued that the Obama administration was playing politics with national security by deliberately targeting high-profile projects, such as aircraft carrier deployments, rather than cutting wasteful spending elsewhere.
The president was obliged by law to sign an order late
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