The USS Harry Truman is this weekend on the front line of the latest conflict to embroil America
Docked in its home port in Virginia rather than
patrolling the waters of the Persian Gulf, the aircraft carrier USS
Harry Truman and its 3,360 officers and crew are this weekend on the
front line of the latest conflict to embroil America.
The
battleground is not military but budgetary, however, as the Truman's
nuclear-powered might is shackled by a rancorous new fight between
President Barack Obama and his Republican foes.
The
two sides are locked into an apparently endless fiscal confrontation
over radically different political and fiscal philosophies on the role
of government. The resulting conflict over spending cuts and tax rises
seems certain to dominate Mr Obama's second term in the White House.
With
an impasse over a new deal to tackle the national debt, mandatory
across-the-board US federal spending cuts of $85 billion kicked into
effect this weekend.
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