Mandy Smithberger

• Congress expected to finalize defense cuts

  Congress is figuring out which programs will feel the pain of a $5 billion cut to defense spending so the plan can fit the new budget deal. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said the cuts will affect important programs.

  Defense

  November 02, 2015
• Budget deal puts NDAA back on track

  Congress will rework the Defense authorization act to conform to budget deal parameters if it cannot garner enough votes to override the President’s veto.

  Defense

  October 29, 2015
• Mandy Smithberger, CDI Straus Military Reform Project, POGO

  The Air Force is campaigning to get rid of the A-10 aircraft program. But the numbers it's using to justify killing the A-10 aren't the real numbers, according to Mandy Smithberger. She's director of the CDI Straus Military Reform Project for the Project on Government Oversight. On In Depth with Francis Rose, she expained why that is.

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  February 12, 2015