Inside Trump’s Bizarre Campaign to Bend the Art World to His Will

POGO - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a major cut to high-ranking military personnel, including a 20% reduction to four-star generals and admirals. POGO has been scrutinizing officer inflation and its cost to taxpayers since our very beginning, and we support the Pentagon finally addressing the top-heavy nature of our military, but only if it’s a good-faith attempt at reform and not an attempt to politicize the force. Hegseth has so far only provided a half-page memo with no details or timeline explaining how these sweeping changes will be enacted, similar to his sparse one-pager about cutting $5.1 billion from the Pentagon budget. The Pentagon has serious waste issues that must be addressed — but it’ll take serious, actionable reform.

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