Hagel: Job not to cut heart out of Pentagon

Friday, April 12, 2013

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel rejected the suggestion that President Barack Obama tapped him to "cut the heart out of the Pentagon," pointedly reminding lawmakers Thursday that Congress approved the smaller, deficit-driven military budgets long before he took the job.

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