Hudson Institute(@HudsonInstitute):In the last decade, the Pentagon has lost more than $125 billion because of an outdated budgeting process that requires any unspent, congressionally appropriated dollars to be returned to the Treasury. Billions of budgeted dollars simply vanish instead of being used to replenish munitions stockpiles, procure new technology, or invest in America's defense industrial base. A special fund should be created that the Secretary of War can use to fund enduring priorities at the speed of relevance, @ChairmanG argues. Read in @FirstBreakfast:

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In the last decade, the Pentagon has lost more than $125 billion because of an outdated budgeting process that requires any unspent, congressionally appropriated dollars to be returned to the Treasury. Billions of budgeted dollars simply vanish instead of being used to replenish munitions stockpiles, procure new technology, or invest in America's defense industrial base. A special fund should be created that the Secretary of War can use to fund enduring priorities at the speed of relevance, @ChairmanG argues. Read in @FirstBreakfast: