Sentences with phrase «budget hawks call»

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President Obama's former defense secretary, Leon Panetta — a defense - cutting budget hawk when he served in Congress — has called sequestration's defense - spending caps «catastrophic,» «a disaster,» and a «a goofy meat - ax approach» that will «hollow out» the military.

Not that they'll necessarily get it though; some hard line austerity hawks in cash strapped councils across the country are undoubtedly going to balk at the idea of being inundated with more calls for aid than they can possibly service after Westminster cut their budgets.