Bannon has been screaming about Pentagon spending for months.
...Hegseth said their main focus and charge he'd received from President Donald Trump was to restore the warrior ethos. He said a big part of that is finding out what works and what doesn't work. They identified an overreliance on "management consultants and contractors." He said they likely had more contractors than they had civilian employees.
He said reviewing these contracts with DOGE, they'd identified $5 billion in savings, in addition to the $5 billion they'd already identified. So that's "$10 billion in real savings at the Department of Defense," Hegseth explained....
That took about 2 weeks to find.
...Hegseth also said he was issuing three memos.
The first was responsibly reducing the number of management consultants and contractors. He stressed these were not fighters, but people who "gave PowerPoints." The second dealt with needed reforms to the Department's usage of executive assistants. The third involved restructuring the Department's operational and test evaluation office, which will make testing weapons more efficient. He explained how they worked with the services on this, there were changes they wanted to implement to make things work better.
"Converting consultants into combat power," Hegseth said. "That's what we're doing here at the Defense Department."
One has to think some of the biggest savings and waste to be found would be in defense spending, and they're just getting started. Meanwhile, they're also working on the most important goal: to focus on warfighters, not politics or woke thought, but what's best to help us protect our fighters and win. ...
Who knew that's what the Pentagon is actually supposed to do?
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