The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office recently revealed analysis showing the Defense Department's projected spending plan for 2016-2020 could exceed spending caps set by the 2011 Budget Control Act by as much as $162 billion because of a variety of rosy assumptions based on congressional cooperation and weapon system costs. "If Congress rejects certain cost-saving proposals that it has not accepted in the past, and if costs for weapon systems continue to rise as they have in the past, funding requested...
