Military Leaders Ask to Delay Budget Planning To Focus on Coronavirus, Let Staff Stay Home

Posted on AllSides March 29th, 2020
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Pentagon workers say that despite Defense Department warnings for non-essential personnel to stay home during the coronavirus pandemic, mundane bureaucratic work on next year’s budget has kept some employees in the building unnecessarily and distracted senior military leaders from focusing on immediate virus response.

On Thursday, senior leaders in charge of the Army, Air Force and Navy budgets asked Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist to delay a June 1 deadline for the early budget plans for fiscal year 2022, Defense One has learned.

Norquist responded by asking the service...

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