State Dept. reeling from budget cuts

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The State Department is still reeling from deep cuts made by Senate and House appropriations panels to the Obama administration's budget requests for next year, with some officials warning of national security risks.

Andrew Shapiro, assistant secretary of state in its Bureau of Political Military Affairs, told a meeting last week of the Center for New American Security that the hefty cuts will compromise national security. He noted that the 2012 funding bill for State Department and foreign operations was cut 8 percent by the full Senate Appropriations Committee and a whopping 18 percent by the House Appropriations State and Foreign Operations subcommittee.

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Peter Finn 02 Oct, 2011

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