Pentagon offered to pay National Guard’s Capitol security costs

Pentagon offered to pay National Guard’s Capitol security costs

As lawmakers loudly sparred in recent weeks about how to reimburse the National Guard half a billion dollars for protecting the Capitol this year, the Pentagon quietly offered to simply foot the bill by deferring “non-urgent” facilities repairs by a few months, CQ Roll Call has learned. The Defense Department’s seemingly simple solution has barely […]
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