Pentagon spending is on the rise. We need to rein it in now or it will only get worse.
that the Pentagon investigate since, without such information, the department will continue to be hard-pressed to ensure that it’s paying anything like a fair price, whatever its purchases.Reining in rip-offs and corruption on the part of weapons contractors large and small could save the American taxpayer untold billions of dollars.
Whether such reforms alone, if adopted, would be enough to truly roll back excess Pentagon spending remains to be seen. Without them, however, count on one thing: the department’s budget will almost certainly continue to soar, undoubtedly reaching $1 trillion or more annually within just the next few years. Americans can’t afford to let that happen.
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