Breaking Defense – Sprinkled throughout the Pentagon’s 2026 budget request, Breaking Defense Air Warfare Reporter Michael Marrow noticed, were references to executive orders related to DOGE initiatives — amounting to some of the firmest accounting of the cost-cutting measures’ impact on the Pentagon’s decision making. The American Enterprise Institute analyzed the document and came up with a total: some $11.1 billion in claimed DOGE-related “efficiencies.” On this week’s episode of The Weekly Break Out, Marrow joins Editor-in-Chief Aaron Mehta to discuss that report, where the money came from, and what it means.
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