Increasing ‘buy American’ requirements on defense spending is still a bad idea

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[This piece has been published in Restoring America to highlight how sweeping legislation requiring the Defense Department to buy American products might actually hurt military readiness.]

Congress is once again flirting with new “Buy American” legislation for defense programs. But underneath the patriotic cover of this legislation is an unexpected casualty: military readiness and capability.

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