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Article: Jumper, Feith Have Different Takes On Budget Cuts.
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- Defense Daily
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- January 27, 2005
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By Amy Butler
The Pentagon's message on $30 billion worth of recent cuts to major programs may be fracturing with senior Defense Department officials portraying a different accounting of events leading up to the reductions.
Pentagon officials are planning to formally hand over the president's FY '06 budget plan to an arguably skeptical Congress in early February.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper and former secretary James Roche characterized the deep cuts to Air Force programs as based only on the numbers. During a Jan. 24 interview with Defense Daily, Jumper reiterated this position, adding that the service plans to present analysis ...