Vice President Joe Biden made the false claim that President Barack Obama does not want to cut the military. However, the White House has cut the military’s budget by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.
Obama cut the Pentagon’s budget by nearly $500 billion dollars, with another $500 billion coming down the pike if Congress fails to agree on a deal to prevent the mandatory cuts, otherwise known as sequestration.
Obama has been clear that the U.S. military would be slimmer.
USA Today reports:
The new military strategy includes $487 billion in cuts over the next decade. An additional $500 billion in cuts could be coming if Congress follows through on plans for deeper reductions. The announcement comes weeks after the U.S. officially ended the Iraq War and after a decade of increased defense spending in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
Obama said that the military will indeed be leaner, but the U.S. will maintain a budget that is roughly larger than the next 10 countries' military budgets combined.
