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发帖数: 2300 | 1 Army says no to more tanks, but Congress insists
WASHINGTON (AP) — Built to dominate the enemy in combat, the Army's hulking
Abrams tank is proving equally hard to beat in a budget battle.
Lawmakers from both parties have devoted nearly half a billion dollars in
taxpayer money over the past two years to build improved versions of the 70-
ton Abrams.
But senior Army officials have said repeatedly, "No thanks."
It's the inverse of the federal budget world these days, in which automatic
spending cuts are leaving sought-after pet programs struggling or unpaid
altogether. Republicans and Democrats for years have fought so bitterly that
lawmaking in Washington ground to a near-halt.
Yet in the case of the Abrams tank, there's a bipartisan push to spend an
extra $436 million on a weapon the experts explicitly say is not needed. | r**k
发帖数: 1402 | 2 Unfortunately, without building tanks, where are jobs coming from? | s*********t
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