DOD chiefs try to sell Congress a budget that would 'divest to invest'

By Tony Bertuca / February 26, 2020 at 5:20 PM
Pentagon leaders appeared before skeptical lawmakers today to pitch them a budget plan that would cut legacy weapons in favor of new technologies -- a tall task given Congress' traditional resistance to ambitious change and the Defense Department's checkered modernization record. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told the House Armed Services Committee today the United States is at a "pivot point" in its great power competition with China and Russia. "There is a fundamental issue...

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