The Pentagon Trigger: Reid Vows To Hold National Security Hostage For Tax Ransom – With Video
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The trigger is that if Congress does not agree to what spending items to cut next year, the new cuts would go into effect automatically. These include draconian cuts to the budget of the Pentagon, cuts which the Pentagon has flatly described as “dangerous”.
This is exactly what I said would happen, that the Democrats would hold the trigger option (which includes over 500 billion in defense cuts) hostage unless we raise taxes. It hasn’t even passed the Senate yet and Harry Reid is already saying it on the Senate floor.
“We’ve had too much talk the last few days of Republicans as early as this morning, Republican leaders in the Senate saying there will be no revenue. That’s not going to happen. Otherwise, the trigger is going to kick in. The only way we can arrive at a fair arrangement for the American people with this joint committee is to have equal sharing. It’s going to be painful. Each party if they do the right thing, it’s going to be painful for them because to be fair, we have to move forward. There has to be equal spending cuts, there has to be some revenue that matches that,” Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said on the floor of the Senate right before voting started on the debt deal.
Increased revenue from taxes was not included in the debt compromise. The “Trigger” mechanism was.


