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On the recordApril 27, 2021
Predictably, for example, even though Congress directed the Defense Department to cut $10 billion through administrative efficiencies between 2015 and 2019, the Pentagon failed to substantiate that it had achieved those savings.
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Joe Morelle
Democratic · New York

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Morelle highlights failures in achieving mandated defense budget cuts.

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