Budget Showdown Aims To Quietly Exempt Pentagon and Focus All Cuts on Social Programs David Sirota https://www.davidsirota.com/ The unwritten and unspoken story of the budget showdown in Washington is the tale of both parties deliberately working to once again exempt the ever-growing Pentagon from America's larger budget/deficit discussion. This is the thrust of the new Republican plan to pass a one-week continuing resolution for non-defense spending and at the same time pass [...]