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How Much is Enough?

If Congress doesn’t make multi-billion dollar weapon decisions, who should?

August 13, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

Senator Karl Mundt expressed it in hearings on PPBS conducted in 1967: We used to face the question: “How much should we spend for a […]

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Who should make multi-billion dollar decisions?

June 15, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Part of the reason for “programming” the budget was to give decision-makers at the top the ability not only to decide on how much money […]

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