For years, Congress has approved increasingly large defense budgets that include billions of dollars in annual allocations for arms and armaments procurement, shipbuilding, and research and development of new weapon systems.
In return for these billions, American taxpayers receive only millions back in the form of new arms, ships, and weapons systems each year. A bipartisan chorus of House Appropriations Committee critics said during a defense budget hearing on April 17 that this inefficient cycle subverts national security and must end.
