The Pentagon Needs a Real Budget, Not Stop-Gap Solutions, says top DoD official
MAY 9TH, 2023 BY DAVID ARIOSTO | 0 COMMENTS
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — With President Joe Biden and top Republican lawmakers sitting down together this week in the hopes of averting an historic government default, a top Pentagon official said a principal concern is that Congress will not pass a budget, but instead opt for a continuing resolution.
“I can’t get up in front of any group and not talk about continuing resolutions and how harmful they are to the department,” U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said Tuesday in front of an audience at the Ash Carter Exchange in Washington D.C. “Now, [we’re] going into a world in which we’re going to have to wait for the Congress to act before we can move forward in a lot of these programs.”
While the Pentagon aims to procure and develop advanced aircraft, Kendall said the department’s focus also requires reliable longer-term budgetary planning, as opposed to stop-gap measures, amidst efforts to prepare for a bevy of security risks, including mounting Chinese cyber and space-related threats.
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