“It’s not like the Navy was shy about requesting ships in the budget or even in their wish lists, but Sen. Shelby has his own wish list that is all about Alabama,” said Steve Ellis, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense.
The injection of billions of dollars into one region of the country — to spend more than even the other hawkish congressional defense panels or the Navy itself seek — is a broken system, critics say, and the ships budget is just one piece of it.
Congress increased the fiscal 2022 defense budget above President Joe Biden’s request by more than $25 billion. For fiscal 2023, lawmakers are poised to boost the defense budget by even more than they did in this fiscal year. The Defense Department’s so-called unfunded priorities lists — which are sometimes called “wish lists” — have become a de facto addendum to the annual defense budget requests. As such, the lists, written mostly by top officers, effectively augment the Pentagon budget requests in a way major nondefense departments and agencies do not.
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