“It’s not just McCain’s absence that is an impediment to congressional oversight, but the fact that this is an election year in Congress, a distraction that “always leads to a stall in governing,” said Mackenzie Eaglen, a defense analyst at the American Enterprise Institute. “Bills tend to stop moving by midsummer. August recess is elongated for campaigning. So difficult questions are always kicked to after the election.”

She summed up the defense industry’s response to the spending plan with one word: “thrilled.”

Trump’s budget is ripe for abuse, said Steve Ellis, a vice president at the advocacy group Taxpayers for Common Sense.

“Just shoveling cash in to the Pentagon is recipe for waste going forward,” he said.”

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