The Department of Defense (DOD) has nearly 450,000 employees stationed overseas, with 2.5 million more in the US. At the same time, Congress continues to hack away at State’s budget. The most recent round of bloodletting saw State lose some $8 billion while DOD gained another $5 billion...
“Hard to argue with most of that, although abolishing the TSA isn’t a good idea. Airport security should be rolled back to pre-9/11 levels, but someone is going to have to be in charge of it. Putting the airlines in charge of it doesn’t make sense; their incentives are going to...
Growth, and Security Initiative." It was a $56 billion fund that would have been divided equally between defense and non-defense expenditures. The cost of the initiative would have been offset largely with targeted spending cuts and closed tax loopholes. ...