Showers of Cash for Pentagon Contractors

Showers of Cash for Pentagon Contractors | Taxpayers for Common Sense:
"... if you’re a Pentagon contractor, you’re loving the fact that the House Appropriations Committee is causing showers of fresh cash to fall.
...Not counting programs the Congress merely added funding to, the House and Senate spent more than  $4.6 billion on projects and programs for which the Pentagon requested nothing, zippo, and nada last year.
Fast forward to the House Appropriations Committee’s draft of the Fiscal Year 2017 Pentagon spending bill.
Upon further review, we’re sad to see the trend is sharply upward.
Just looking at the programs the Pentagon did not request at all – ones they couldn’t fit into their $585 billion combined request of base budget and war funding – and we can identify $6.7 billion in funding for programs the Administration doesn’t want (see below, and click for a close-up)..."