Over the course of several administrations, the military has overused and under-maintained too many weapon systems for too long.

And for years, the services have stretched to meet demanding operational needs with fewer people,

older equipment and facilities, and a shrinking industrial base.

At the same time, the department is all too often not realistically planned

for how to sustain ships, aircraft, ground vehicles, and other systems. And across the services,

we found a lack of spare parts, maintainers, repair facilities, technical data, training,

and other problems. And as a result, too many systems

that taxpayers have spent billions to build and maintain are not mission capable. So playing year-round

Santa of weapons to Taiwan and Israel and Ukraine while skimping on maintenance of our own equipment, it appears that this

has had consequences. And what I'm afraid of, which is an educated fear, is that we're not ready

for a huge war.

I am so damn tired of being lied to. I don't think I can deny it

anymore

You can't stick to your story

If you think it flies

But I'm not going to buy it anymore.

Hello, friend, and thank you for listening to the 335th episode of Congressional Dish.

I'm your host, Jennifer Bryny.

And today's episode is going to be a summary of February 26.

And I will tell you that most of what was accomplished was in one law that funded five segments of our government.

So most of the episode today is going to be about that.

And I'll tell you that I'm, you're not going to hear every single thing that was in that funding law because that would be incredibly boring.

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