President Barack Obama speaks about the Defense Strategic Review during a press briefing at the Pentagon.
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A new study suggests that Republican and Democratic voters agree on an issue that has divided their congressional representatives for decades: defense spending. According to a study by the Stimson Center, the Center for Public Integrity and the Program for Public Consultation, 80 percent of those polled in Democrat-majority districts and 74 percent of those polled in Republican-majority districts think the budget should be reduced.
This would mean that many Republican voters would cut the defense budget, even though their congressional representatives wouldn’t.
R. Jeffrey Smith is the managing editor for national security at the Center for Public Integrity — one of the organizations behind this survey.
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