Spencer Ackerman is betting that the defense cuts triggered by Super Committee's failure will never be implemented:
Stopping sequestration probably won’t have to wait until the next election. Already, Republican legislators are preparing bills that will spare the Pentagon — now slated to spend $5 trillion over the next ten years, excluding war costs — the budget axe. “[M]ost of us will move heaven and earth to find an alternative that prevents a sequester from happening,” Rep. Michael Conoway, an Armed Services Committee member, told the New York Times. And it’s probably going to be one of the few bipartisan affairs left in Washington.
Except Obama has promised to veto any attempts to defuse the trigger.
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