Oversight panel eyes waste as Trump proposes domestic cuts to boost defense

By Tony Bertuca / March 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM
A panel of House lawmakers on Tuesday debated how much could be saved by streamlining Pentagon business practices and, though they differed along partisan lines on what to do with the savings, a bipartisan consensus emerged that billions in waste could be slashed at a time when President Trump has proposed steep cuts to domestic spending to increase the Defense Department's budget. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), who presided over a hearing focused on a...

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