Democrats hammer Trump budget plan with DoD efficiency study

Defense News:  WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday used a Pentagon efficiency study that claimed $125 billion in unrealized savings to attack President Trump’s plan to fund a defense hike with domestic cuts.

U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House oversight committee, was among House Democrats who questioned the wisdom of Trump’s planned $54 billion defense add when, according to the Defense Business Board study, there is huge waste in DoD’s back-office bureaucracy.

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