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Archive Home > 2011 > January > 28 > Gates: Budget impasse threatens readiness

Gates: Budget impasse threatens readiness


January 28, 2011

OTTAWA — Defense Secretary Robert Gates, escalating his budget battle with Congress, has issued an unusually passionate warning that the impasse over this year’s federal spending package threatens the military’s readiness to fight.

“I have a crisis on my doorstep,” Gates said, making the case....

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