Congressional interference in spending plans and the inflexibility of sequestration have a cost, the military service chiefs told the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday--inefficiencies stemming from cuts and uncertainty will cost Marine Corps aviation $6.5 billion over a decade, and Congress making the Army buy M1 Abrams tanks the service doesn’t want is keeping money from more fully funding modernization accounts. As the four service chiefs outlined the impacts of sequestration--on their budgets, their modernization efforts, overseas operations, personnel and…
Service Chiefs: Lack of Control Over Own Budgets Causing Inefficiencies, Misdirected Spending
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