WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of GOP lawmakers from House and Senate on Wednesday offered a plan to cut the federal workforce and use the savings to replace some $85 billion in across-the-board budget cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs.
The legislation reprises a plan offered last year that failed to advance.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., leads the group, which agrees with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that a looming 8 percent cut to this year's Pentagon budget would recklessly harm the nation's military.
McKeon said the Pentagon faces "dire straits."
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