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The phrase “fiscal cliff” has dominated much of the nation’s political news recently, and so have talks surrounding the defense budget in light of international conflict.
The John Goodwin Tower Center’s National Security Conference held on campus several weeks ago, zeroed in on the close relations between the two. Professor James Hollifield said that since the conference, talk surrounding the defense budget and its dependence on the issues regarding the fiscal cliff has continued and escalated.
“If we go off this so-called fiscal cliff, are there going to be deep cuts in the defense budget?”
Hollifield said it’s that question that is dominating many negotiations between “the president and the Republican