The Defense Department is requesting $6.8 billion in military construction for fiscal year 2021, a $9 billion reduction from the previous year. Elaine McCusker, the acting Pentagon comptroller, said much of the planned reduction is coming because DOD had an unusually large MILCON request in FY-20, which sought a total of $19.7 billion, with $9.2 billion in emergency spending to alleviate damage from natural disasters. "Once you take out the disaster MILCON that we got in '20, the cut is...
