We’ve all heard stories about how Uncle Sam pays $436 for a claw hammer, but if President Trump and Elon Musk are looking for Pentagon waste, they should begin their search on Capitol Hill. Congress directs unnecessary spending to benefit well-heeled and influential donors, friends and constituents.
Congress has supposedly banned “earmarks,” the provisions in appropriations bills directing money toward favored projects in members’ home districts and states.
Members of the House Appropriations Committee didn’t get the memo.
Case in point: Congress last year decreed that $21 billion should be spent for 1,072 separate program increases in the Pentagon’s procurement and research, development, test and evaluation accounts — most of which the Pentagon didn’t even ask for.
It gets worse.
Read the whole article at The Washington Times.
