Stopping the Federal Waste From Temporary Funding

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Stopping the Federal Waste From Temporary Funding

The American tax payer is losing up to $103 million per day in defense buying power – meaning the funding that should be available for defense priorities is not. The clock on this loss started on October 1 and keeps ticking toward March 14 when the current temporary funding measure keeping our government running – known as a continuing resolution (CR) – expires. By that time, $17 billion in defense buying power will be gone. A CR prohibits start…