House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested Thursday morning that she would support a version of the president's proposed spending freeze that included defense spending.
She stressed the entire defense budget "should not be exempted," as President Barack Obama proposed in his State of the Union address Wednesday night, because the Pentagon too suffers from costly, wasteful programs that could produce savings.
"We want them to have everything they need," Pelosi said of military forces abroad and their families. "But we do not support an entitlement program for overruns in defense contracting," she quickly added, noting millions could be saved if lawmakers ensured Defense contracts did not overshoot spending targets.
