There's good reason to wonder if the debt ceiling deal will result in significant defense cuts, as the current arrangement is sufficiently ambiguous to still allow some slow growth. Nevertheless, I think that even this will be sufficient to produce some interesting politics within the...
the budget
Actual cuts now, theoretical revenue increases later. If something like this doesn't happen it'll be because the median vote in the House is a lunatic winger. What's particularly exasperating about.
I just did a quick Nexis search, and discovered that the query "(Paul Ryan) and serious" produced 314 hits in the last 48 hours. Browsing through a couple of dozen.