{"id":20196,"date":"2013-06-03T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T20:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=20196"},"modified":"2013-06-03T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T20:24:49","slug":"free-market-groups-want-to-slash-1-9-trillion-from-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/free-market-groups-want-to-slash-1-9-trillion-from-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Free-market Groups Want to Slash $1.9 Trillion from Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From R Street&#8217;s Andrew Moylan<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>As lawmakers begin discussing the National Defense Authorization Act in earnest this week, many in Washington are wondering, is it possible to defend America\u2019s national interests and defend taxpayers\u2019 wallets at the same time? According to a joint report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntu.org\/\">National Taxpayers Union<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/\">R Street Institute<\/a>, the answer is an emphatic \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow the two free-market groups will provide an overview of their study, which highlights a menu of 100 Pentagon savings recommendations (some of which would overlap or conflict with each other) totaling nearly $1.9 trillion in coming years. The paper also briefly recounts the history of conservative involvement in military spending restraint, and provides seven suggestions to help conservatives \u201cmove beyond occasional success and become an ongoing influence\u201d in Pentagon budgeting decisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO<\/strong>: NTU Executive Vice President Pete Sepp &#038; R Street Institute Outreach Director and Senior Fellow Andrew Moylan<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong>: Media teleconference and overview of the study, \u201cDefending America, Defending Taxpayers: How Pentagon Spending Can Better Reflect Conservative Values.\u201d An advance copy of the report, which will be released 12 noon ET, June 4, may be viewed here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN<\/strong>: Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CALL IN<\/strong>:   (877) 642-4202. PIN # 91370297.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From R Street&#8217;s Andrew Moylan: As lawmakers begin discussing the National Defense Authorization Act in earnest this week, many in Washington are wondering, is it possible to defend America\u2019s national interests and defend taxpayers\u2019 wallets at the same time? According to a joint report from the National Taxpayers Union and the R Street Institute, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-spending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20199,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20196\/revisions\/20199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20196"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}