Trump administration orders Pentagon to plan for sweeping budget cuts

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9. The military is a big employer in the South

Many of the states and districts are represented by rw and very conservative MOCs.

Further, I'm not sure Americans realize or understand just how much of DoD's operations have been outsourced. I've been retired for many years now, but before I left, my command was well on the way to giving most of the logistics support to the major defense contractors and replacing our excellent forecasting and parts management system with a commercial software system. If Musk and his Dodgies follow their script and start dismissing contractors, it is going to be a cluster f---.