[uncbob]

The Constitution states congress has the power to raise and maintain the military
Where does Obama get the power to cut 40,000

[joethedrummer]

Exactly!!!!!

ALL of our government is ignoring our Constitution and perverting the way our government was created to operate.

I so wish they’d pay our soldiers at least a quarter of what our politicians make and pay the politicians their beloved $15 an hour. Too bad our founders didn’t frame the pay rates that way.

[corlorde]

Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 2011 with bipartisan support, and signed into law by Obama... which cut over $400 billion from projected defense spending over ten years. The act also led to sequestration, which slashes an additional $495 billion from the defense budget, for an overall total of almost $1 trillion in cuts.

[Vermont Lt]

Congress passed the sequester. Obama is just doing what the republicans told him to do.