The bottom line is simple enough: Congress needs to cut the Pentagon budget dramatically.
of an accidental nuclear war because a president will have just minutes to decide whether to launch them in a crisis .
Unfortunately, lawmakers have proven remarkably unwilling to address the issue of Pentagon waste. Take the chair of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, for example. The new incumbent Ken Calvert recently offered this boilerplate response on the subject: “Despite various reports on budget numbers, while I support reforms that will yield cost savings in any government program, I do not support cuts to national security that would negatively impact readiness or slow our ability to deliver capability to the warfighter.”
Never mind that Congress can’t assess military readiness, his statement obscures the fact that he undoubtedly intends to press for even higher budgets, while threatening to make the search for “waste” a modest sideshow.second-highest recipient of defense-industry contributions in Congress between 2021 and 2022 at $415,850. Only current House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers received more. So don’t expect either of them to go after the F-35, despite its cost overruns and dismal performance, or any other major weapons system.
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