New CBO report: DOD can cut budget by $1 trillion without changing US strategy
The Congressional Budget Office’s study should start a debate not on whether to make cuts at the Pentagon, but by how much.
The Congressional Budget Office’s study should start a debate not on whether to make cuts at the Pentagon, but by how much.
The vaunted Obama-era BCA limits expire today. Sadly, they did nothing to rein in defense spending.
Many of those who opposed amendments to rein in DOD’s bloated coffers have been underwritten by the weapons industry.
They say adding $25 billion more than what Biden requested for the Pentagon ‘sends exactly the wrong message.’
The greased revolving door from the Pentagon to the weapons industry gives former officials easy access for influence peddling.
This would add to 750 existing American bases abroad, according to a new Quincy study hot off the presses today.
This is the week when Congress can get the scissors out — or not. Either way, the military budget is overdue for a makeover.
It’s as predictable as the sun rising and setting, but that doesn’t mean we have to accept the games that the Congress and Pentagon play.
If deterrence is synonymous with dominance, no amount of military spending will ever be enough.
All but one Senate Armed Services Committee member recently succumbed to this wasteful exercise.
A grassroots movement is opposing a package of nearly $100M in subsidies and local handouts for a new Raytheon defense plant in town.
There are bipartisan efforts to sneak more money into the Pentagon’s already bloated and unaccounted for coffers.
A shift in spending toward urgent priorities like addressing the possibility of future pandemics would be a far better investment in “national security.”
Despite cuts, the Army wants nearly $1B to upgrade a vehicle that literally put our soldiers in harm’s way. But it’s a big boon for the contractor.
Biden’s budget request for the newly created Pacific Deterrence Initiative would fund boondoggles while spending little on diplomacy.
The president is going full speed ahead on beefing up the triad and expensive modernization — despite cries from his own party.
A new cold war atmosphere will allow the Pentagon to hoard resources that would otherwise go to our greater public health and safety needs.
Their objections to budget cuts have nothing really to do with who is best positioned to fight, but losing out on the spoils.
Applying phony solutions to real problems — it seems the armed forces, in league with Congress, has this down.
In response, General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic offered no evidence to refute the claims.
While millions of Americans have yet to recover, War Incorporated joins pantheon of wealthiest elites profiting during the pandemic.