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Due to Budget Control Act of 2011 requirements to cut the Defense Budget for FY2013 and subsequent years, plans are being considered to decommission some of the Ticonderoga-class cruisers.
The President of the United States in the game is not named, but is apparently modeled after Bill Clinton, who in a cut scene praises the player for protecting him and apologizes for cutting the defense budget.
In 2011, POGO worked with Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) to amend a defense budget bill that would have applied more secrecy to FOIA requests at the Department of Defense.