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[Jolly]

Or maybe energy drinks will be on the menu. DOGE goes to the Pentagon...

https://spectator.org/trump-unleash-doge-pentagon-budget-musk-look/

[Mik]

All for it so long as it is done with an eye toward defense priorities and the world we anticipate.

[Jolly]

Hegseth is right about a few things, such as:

1. The military command structure is too top heavy.
2. Defense hasn't passed an audit in years.
3. The procurement process is really crazy.

That, along with housing and meal problems for the enlisted ranks, are things maybe DOGE can bring to the public's attention.

[Horace]

The thousand dollar hammers have been a legendary anecdote since I was a kid.

[Copper]

Despite the tens of billions being wasted on a project like the F-35, the examples that tend to draw the most attention from the media and the most outrage among taxpayers involve overspending on routine items. This may be because the average person doesn’t have a sense of what a fighter plane should cost, but can more easily grasp that spending $640 for a toilet seat or $7,600 for a coffee pot is outrageous.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/only-the-pentagon-could-spend-640-on-a-toilet-seat/