Congress requires the Pentagon to submit Unfunded Priorities List (UPL) each year, offering a backdoor of requests of $25.8 billion for 2025 (double from the previous year) to boosting already exorbitant military spending of $895.2 billion in military spending President Biden has already requested. In her recent article “The Pentagon’s Billion-Dollar Wish Lists“, Sofia Guerra from the Friends Committee on National Legislation talks about these unmonitored requests, and new bi-partisan legislation seeking to cut this fat from Defense Department.

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