Sometimes Pandering Gets You Nowhere

McCain earmark cutting would leave Military families out in the cold.

While McCain does not identify the $65 billion in earmarks he would cut, his campaign has cited the Congressional Research Service analysis of earmark spending as the basis for his plan because it offers the biggest amount of earmarks — up to $52 billion. [...] "The Congressional Research Service analysis counts not only the [military] family housing units added by Congress as earmarks but also those requested by the Pentagon and the White House.

"CRS identified $6.6 billion in spending in the 2005 Military Construction Appropriation bill associated with earmarks. This included 205 units at Fort Huachuca at a cost of $41 million and 250 units at Davis-Monthan Air Base at a cost $48.5 million—both in McCain’s home state of Arizona."

Think Progress concludes, "So is McCain willing to cut military housing to pay for his corporate tax cuts?"

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