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• Joint Letter to the House: Reduce Wasteful Pentagon Spending

  It is irresponsible to continue to ignore current law and set our country on the path towards yet another sequestration this fall...

  
• A Cigar for SIGAR – Documenting Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Waste in Afghanistan

  Non-payments could seriously undermine any efforts at a successful reconstruction and actually increase...

  
• Letter to the House: Support Common Sense Amendments to NDAA

  As Defense Secretary Hagel has indicated, our defense spending has to be resource informed...

  
• Defense Savings Strengthen Our Economic Security

  Congress can help protect our nation’s economic security by pursuing a minimum of $50 to $100 billion in annual Pentagon budget savings...

  
• Pentagon contracting 101

  Department of Defense purchases more than $1 billion of goods and services every day, accounting for two-thirds of all government purchases...

  

Providing for the common defense is a government function enshrined in our constitution. But every defense dollar we spend beyond our needs “has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security,” in the words of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Defense spending accounts for the...More

largest portion of the federal discretionary budget and is packed with contracts for goods and services the military does not even need, let alone want. Congress could find hundreds of billions of dollars in savings by reforming Defense Department contracts, delaying or eliminating costly, problematic weapons systems, and right-sizing our force to handle 21st-century conflicts.

Transparency and accountability for spending decisions at all national security agencies is critical to the task of trimming the federal budget and the national debt. These agencies include the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and State, as well as the Department of Energy’s nuclear-weapons functions.

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