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Deficit hawks pull in talons for military

Republicans work to wriggle out of cuts they already approved

By Joshua Green

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  April 05, 2012

Last week, House Republicans passed a budget devised by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the voluble deficit hawk who chairs the Budget Committee and serves as his party’s point man on cutting taxes and spending. But Ryan’s budget, while proposing steep cuts, also seeks to undo other cuts already signed into law, and thereby serves to illustrate why, for all its endless talk, Congress has such a hard time actually cutting spending.

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