The military has a massive budget. Between fraud, waste, overlapping missions between the services, and us being places we shouldn’t be (please explain to me why we still have bases in Germany), we are spending way more than we should be.
As I said in my post above, the first place to look for excess funds is the bloated contractor base in DC.
Explanation: we still have bases in Germany because it’s cheaper than building new facilities in, say, Poland. And it also gives us some leverage with the Germans.