
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) released his annual Wastebook spending oversight report to highlight “wasteful and low-priority spending totaling nearly $30 billion,” which this year featured numerous military acquisition programs and community outreach efforts. Coburn said he could not support the budget deal passed by the House of Representatives last week and set to pass in the Senate this week because it reduces sequestration, which some Republican lawmakers favor as a spending-reduction tool despite complaints from the Defense Department and others, in return…