Hill wants $15 billion for weapons Pentagon didn't seek: report

Capitol Hill Wants $15 Billion for Weapons Pentagon Didn’t Seek: Report

The spending directions from Congress are included in tables that Republican Defense appropriators sent the department last month to spell out how members believe Defense money in the fiscal 2025 continuing resolution should be spent.

Hill wants $15 billion for weapons Pentagon didn't seek: report

A new report from Taxpayers for Common Sense found that lawmakers pushed to add $15 billion the Pentagon didn't request to defense prorams.

Hill wants $15 billion for weapons Pentagon didn’t seek: report - Taxpayers for Common Sense

Defense appropriators in Congress have recommended adding nearly $15 billion the Pentagon did not request in fiscal 2025 for several hundred military research and procurement programs, a new database shows. In most cases, those increases were additions to the amount of funds the Pentagon had sought. But more than one-third of the money went to scores of new programs, mostly weapons, that were not in the Pentagon’s budget plans for fiscal 2025, a…