Rapid Fire June 5, 2013: Interest Groups, A Gift that Keeps On Giving
- Contributing to a sudden, redoubled effort from interest groups to pressure the US government into starting significant reforms at the Pentagon, the conservative National Taxpayers Union (NTU) and R Street Institute released a report [PDF] outlining yet another non-parochial plan for Congress to ignore. Like pretty much everyone else, they see a potential for big savings in DoD (civilian) personnel, but also go more aggressively than most after weapon systems.
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