Hirono: Defense cuts would hit every state, including Hawaii

To say the clock is ticking on Congress to get its house in order and pass what ever legislation is needed to avoid deep cuts in the defense budget is an understatement.

Pentagon officials have told me the military will have to cut its budget this fiscal year by $52 billion if lawmakers don’t come up with a deal this year, and those cuts will go into effect in early January.

That’s not a lot of time, folks. The cuts would trim hundreds of billions of dollars from the military’s budget over…