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Budget Unpredictability Harms U.S. Military Readiness

U.S Department of Defense

Five months into the current fiscal year Congress has yet to pass an annual budget, opting instead for short-term spending bills called Continuing Resolutions to fund the government. That method of accounting hits every part of the U.S. government and the Secretary of the Air Force says she cannot run her branch of the military that way.

Bill Dorman joined HPR in 2011 and was named its executive editor in 2025.
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