Here’s what we know about the politics of the Pentagon budget proposal so far.
But what do experts (those people who make the defense budget and other Pentagon arcana their stock and trade) have to say?Larry Korb is a senior fellow at the progressive Center for American Progress, but from 1981 through 1985 he served under Ronald Reagan as assistant secretary of defense, where, according to his staff bio, he “administered about 70 percent of the defense budget.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=143963