Pentagon Wish Lists Nearly Triple in Two Years - Taxpayers for Common Sense

Pentagon Wish Lists Nearly Triple in Two Years - Taxpayers for Common Sense

Since 2017, Congress has required each military service and combatant command to submit unfunded priority lists (UPLs), extrabudgetary wish lists for programs and projects that didn’t make their way into the president’s formal Pentagon budget request. It’s a bad way to budget for national security—it increases the Pentagon’s topline, funds congressional pet projects at the expense of priorities included in the actual budget request, and undercut…