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Brickbat: Who Ordered the Satellite?

Charles Oliver | 3.28.2018 4:00 AM


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The spending bill signed by President Donald Trump last week includes $600 million in the Air Force budget for two satellites the service did not ask for. Lawmakers say they just want to make sure the Air Force will be able to replace any satellites in that system if it needs to.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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