Lawmakers press DoD officials on MILCON budget: ‘What’s that $900 million for?’

Lawmakers press DoD officials on MILCON budget: ‘What’s that $900 million for?’

A key Senate appropriator is demanding answers from the Defense Department about how it plans to spend nearly $900 million in military construction funding tucked into the Trump administration’s reconciliation package. During the Senate Appropriations Committee budget hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) pressed Dale Marks, assistant secretary of Defense for energy, installations and environment, to explain which construction projects the…