Laicie Heeley, The Hill: The Biden administration is poised to absorb the Pentagon's 'slush fund'
On May 6, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he believes the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is likely to create “opportunities” to redirect Pentagon spending. “Certainly, any time you stop doing something that is this important and this big, it creates opportunities,” he said. The statement was a signal that, in a major break with precedent, the Biden administration intends to simply roll excess war spending back into the Pentagon’s base budget. As the wars come to an end, Congress should demand greater understanding and accountability for those funds, as well as the designation that allowed the money to grow outside recent budget caps. What’s more, Congress should demand the topline savings Americans expect to enjoy at the end of a war.
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WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction. That money is not going back to the tax-payer.
4 comments:
They'll waste it like always
The could use 5/6ths of it to pay down the debt and use 1/6th to meet the growing Chinese threat.
Or they could use all of it to pay down the debt. Supposing they cut all of it from the military budget. Princess Pelosi graf San Francisco (von Baltimore) and her courtiers would see to it that the overall budget expanded faster than inflation or tax receipts. Should it be a capital crime?
I expect those funds will be used by Sec. Defense Austin to purge right wing extremists from the US military.
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
23 trillion dollars in debt, hello? Nahhh let's just keep focusing on "racism" and printing fake money until your pensions explode.
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