Four liberal House Democrats wrote a letter calling on President Barack Obama to roughly double the defense cuts his administration recently announced.
Democratic Reps. Barney Frank (MA), Lynn Woolsey (CA), Rush Holt (NJ) and Barbara Lee (CA) were the signatories.
“[W]e believe that the current overextension of United States forces overseas, and tremendous military advantage the United States holds over other countries…allows us to make much more substantial spending reductions than the $480 billion in cuts over ten years that you are proposing,” they wrote.
“We believe that savings in the vicinity of around $900 billion over ten years can be realized, and we will be working to build support in Congress this year for cuts along those lines, during the appropriations process and during the coming debate on sequestration.”
