- Eaglen: What the election will mean for the defense budget
Mackenzie Eaglen writes: A modest budget deal will be hailed as a success in providing budget stability and predictability for Pentagon officials. This will also reveal that what truly ails the Defense Department is not that politicians wait until the last minute to revise the spending law, but that the US military simply isn’t getting enough money to do the job. – Breaking Defense
Mackenzie Eaglen and Rick Berger write: A repeal of the Budget Control Act and a substantial investment in the military now seem imminent. What remains to be seen is whether Republicans can pursue meaningful entitlement reform to render such a buildup sustainable. As a candidate who spoke favorably of leveraging debt, Trump could simply increase defense and infrastructure spending by increasing the debt. In that scenario, the sky is the limit – War on the Rocks
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