Jonathan Rue

It may or may not surprise you to learn that @warren.senate.gov was trying to tackle this problem *before* she was even a member of SASC.

Upcharging on Food, Selling Booze: The Army's Plan to Privatize Dining The Army is preparing to overhaul its food service system in a move that could strip away government-run dining facilities and hand operations to private, for-profit companies.

Privatizing housing worked out so well for military families. What could go wrong here?

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This rules.

We will not tolerate this slander of such a Good Girl!!

Good thing we helped Republicans keep the government open otherwise a bunch of organizations would have been shuttered and people laid off.

Not only are they likely beginning the process of rolling back many of the grooming standards that have been updated in recent years, it looks like they are cracking the door open to revisiting women in combat arms MOSs too.

(Hope I’m wrong—on all counts.)

Ahem, Taiwan, call your office.

Such strong defense. Much lethality.

SASC typically doesn’t hold public nomination hearings for the Service JAGs but Democrats on the committee must demand one. They should refuse unanimous consent on their nominations if they don’t get that hearing too.

Every Chief and Combatant Commander that wasn’t fired probably needs to be asked this series of questions as well.

Sadly, with these blatantly political firings, every single general and flag officer nominee going forward must be asked publicly under oath by SASC what sort of loyalty oaths, if any, they swore to the Administration.

What the absolute fuck

Agree that this is shaping up to be the real test, but now that they’ve signaled a willingness to go along with impoundment at the domestic agencies, it’ll be that much harder to keep DOD exempted.

(This was foreseeable to anyone who spent more than 5 seconds thinking about it.)

Anyway, Impoundment Fairy coming home to roost soon enough it appears.

How do Roger Wicker and Susan Collins feel about major cuts to non-submarine shipbuilding? (They no like.)

So they’ll want to keep buying LPDs and DDGs, but they can’t force the admin to keep writing those MYPs either.

Rinse and repeat across 48 other states and 435 Congressional districts.

BUT… Now that they’ve signaled their willingness to go along with impoundment at the domestic agencies like NIH and Dept of Ed, who’s going to force the Admin to spend all the money Congress will still probably give DOD?

So my guess, and it’s just a guess because I have no idea what Congressional Republicans are thinking, is that defense spending is one of a tiny category of things that Congress will continue to do what’s in their interest, and that means appropriating what they want (not what the Admin wants).

Congress has been willing to go along with the real and announced cuts to many other agencies and insodoing are ceding their Article I power of the purse.

What are they going to do now that the cuts are coming for defense?

Keep in mind that by exempting many categories of things (such as missile defense, nukes, etc.) that the cuts will be much steeper than 8% on the remaining categories. Is end strength protected? What about training/readiness? 5th gen aircraft? R&D? The list goes on.

Trying to imagine what would happen if a Democratic Administration did this and my brain is melting.

Trump administration orders Pentagon to plan for sweeping budget cuts The Trump administration directive exempts a handful of programs, including Trump’s expanded military mission along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Ordering a completely arbitrary 8% cut to the defense budget *before* drafting your National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy is WILD. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Totally agree. Relatedly, this is why I am skeptical that any administration will be able to marshal the necessary resources to fight China after a move against Taiwan.

These folks couldn’t be bothered to wear a mask. Imagine asking them to drive their cars less because we need JP-5/8.

It’s going to take every last bit of my willpower to not skeet my way through the next few years, huh.

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