Report criticizes Pentagon budget priorities

Posted on: May. 4th, 2006 || Source: mercurynews.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

Report criticizes Pentagon budget priorities

WASHINGTON - Congress should cut $62 billion out of Cold War weapons programs and shift most of that money to homeland security, efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and diplomatic measures that better address current national security needs, a new report concludes.

The report, issued Wednesday by the Task Force on a Unified Security Budget for the United States, singles out such programs as the F-22 stealth fighter jet, the Virginia-class submarine, the DD(X) destroyer, the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and the C-130J cargo plane as having "scant relevance to the threats we face" and recommends that they be eliminated or reduced significantly.

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