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Senate Cuts Off Spending for F-22's
President Obama threatened to veto the entire military spending bill, and today the Senate gave in. By a vote of 58 to 40, it adopted an amendment killing new spending for the F-22 fighter jet. The President applauded the action. Winslow Wheeler is Director of the Strauss Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readPresident Obama threatened to veto the entire military spending bill, and today the Senate gave in. By a vote of 58 to 40, it adopted an amendment killing new spending for the F-22 fighter jet. The President applauded the action. Winslow Wheeler is Director of the Strauss Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information.
