On January 26, Scowcroft Center nonresident senior fellow Ronald Marks was featured on Government Matters, explaining the Department of Defense’s budget process. Marks outlines that the defense budget process is lengthy due to the extraordinary amount of money involved.
[Congress] needs to take a careful look at the whole process from the planning stage, through the programming and budgeting, execution, but they really need to take a look at who is layered into this thing.
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