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<blockquote data-quote="wing2000" data-source="post: 77241617" data-attributes="member: 314005"><p>Regarding defense spending, here is one place to start:</p><p></p><p><em><u>Each year, lawmakers add somewhere between $15 billion and <a href="https://rollcall.com/2022/07/14/pentagon-hill-added-58-billion-to-current-defense-budget/" target="_blank">$60 billion</a> to military budgets the Pentagon did not ask for. </u>The Space Force, for example, <a href="https://spacenews.com/congress-adds-1-7-billion-for-u-s-space-force-in-2023-spending-bill/" target="_blank">received $1.7 billion</a> more in December’s continuing resolution than the Pentagon requested. Featherbedding is so fully entrenched in the annual budget games that 19 Pentagon agencies are required by statute to report to Congress on any “unfunded priorities” they could not get past the Office of Management and Budget on their way to Capitol Hill. Those reports are an invitation for lawmakers to fund them anyway. Over a decade, that unrequested spending could, by itself, top a quarter of a trillion dollars.</em></p><p><em>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/25/pentagon-smarter-budget-debt/[/URL]</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wing2000, post: 77241617, member: 314005"] Regarding defense spending, here is one place to start: [I][U]Each year, lawmakers add somewhere between $15 billion and [URL='https://rollcall.com/2022/07/14/pentagon-hill-added-58-billion-to-current-defense-budget/']$60 billion[/URL] to military budgets the Pentagon did not ask for. [/U]The Space Force, for example, [URL='https://spacenews.com/congress-adds-1-7-billion-for-u-s-space-force-in-2023-spending-bill/']received $1.7 billion[/URL] more in December’s continuing resolution than the Pentagon requested. Featherbedding is so fully entrenched in the annual budget games that 19 Pentagon agencies are required by statute to report to Congress on any “unfunded priorities” they could not get past the Office of Management and Budget on their way to Capitol Hill. Those reports are an invitation for lawmakers to fund them anyway. Over a decade, that unrequested spending could, by itself, top a quarter of a trillion dollars. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/25/pentagon-smarter-budget-debt/[/URL][/I] [/QUOTE]
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