Scott Maucione: Defense bill calls for 30 percent staffing cut

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Scott Maucione: Defense bill calls for 30 percent staffing cut

Lots of members of Congress and even some in the Pentagon look at that big north parking lot and think one thing: What a payroll. The question of bloated headqu...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

December 14, 2015 9:58 am

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Scott Maucione, DoD reporter, Federal News Radio

Lots of members of Congress and even some in the Pentagon look at that big north parking lot and think one thing: What a payroll. The question of bloated headquarters staff seems resistent to efforts to cut it. But now the 2016 Defense Authorization bill calls on DoD to cut 30 percent of its staff over the next four years. Federal News Radio's Scott Maucione shares more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Read Scott's related story.