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I hope the ending is different this time around.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith applauded the White House&#8217;s overall $4 trillion federal spending plan because it lays out a way to get rid of sequestration. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/budget-policy\/congresswatch\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; background: #ffffff;\"><b>For the latest national security news from Capitol Hill, go to CongressWatch<\/b><\/span><\/a>&#8220;I applaud the president for putting forth a budget proposal that would do away with sequestration,&#8221; Smith said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In today&#8217;s dangerous world, we need to make sure that we are supporting our military and providing it with the tools and resources that it needs to protect national security and allowing the threat of sequestration to persist flies in the face of that responsibility,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"background: #ffffff;\">But GOP leaders in both chambers oppose the <\/span><span style=\"color: #1155cc; background: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story\/defense\/policy-budget\/congress\/2015\/02\/02\/obama-budget-taxes-deficit\/22747889\/\">tax hikes<\/a><\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">, among other tactics, it would use to alleviate the automatic budget cuts.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: white; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\">Email: <\/span><a href=\"mailto:jbennett@defensenews.com\"><span style=\"background: white;\">jbennett@defensenews.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\">Twitter:<\/span><span style=\"color: #5b9bd5; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BennettJohnT\">@bennettjohnt<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Armed Services Committee&#8217;s top Democrat expects a repeat of last year, when Congress reversed a list of Pentagon budget-cutting proposals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":116405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[8,33,19],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1090],"class_list":["post-60960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress","category-home","category-pentagon"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"DDDYT7IRUJH2HPUK6UDGMSO76I","arc_canonical_url":"\/congress\/2015\/02\/02\/smith-expects-groundhog-day-on-dod-budget\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Smith Expects Groundhog Day on DoD Budget - Defense News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The House Armed Services Committee&#039;s top Democrat expects a repeat of last year, when Congress reversed a list of Pentagon budget-cutting proposals.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smith Expects Groundhog Day on DoD Budget\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The House Armed Services Committee&#039;s top Democrat expects a repeat of last year, when Congress reversed a list of Pentagon budget-cutting proposals.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2015\/02\/02\/smith-expects-groundhog-day-on-dod-budget\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Defense News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-02-02T20:54:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T00:27:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John T. 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