RSSDefense bill comes at a price for taxpayers
From: The Washington Times | December 22, 2009
President Obama won most of his spending fights with Congress over the Defense Department this year, but it cost several billion dollars of taxpayers' money to buy legislative peace. The $636 billion defense spending bill that Mr. Obama signed into law Monday fully funds his plans for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, but Congress added $465 million for an alternate F-35 engine that the Pentagon says it doesn't need or want. Mr. Obama had requested $6.8 billion for the F-35 program and didn't want any of that going to develop the second engine, which has been a priority for some ...
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