Major bill aims to slash Pentagon bureaucracy

Military Times: The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has targeted most Pentagon support agencies for a 25 percent cut, proposing seven be shuttered entirely.

If adopted, it could lead to thousands of defense civilian job cuts and massive changes for defense contractors.

Texas Republican Rep. Mac Thornberry announced the proposal Tuesday, aimed at eliminating bureaucratic waste to reap more than $25 billion to reinvest in war fighting. The moves after he and other pro-defense lawmakers won a two-year budget deal that boosts defense to $700 billion in 2018 and $716 in 2019.

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