How can some policymakers claim to be fiscal conservatives when they won’t allow small spending cuts to the defense budget to go through?

We’ve seen that the “sky is falling” predictions about sequestration haven’t materialize. Yet lawmakers in both houses of Congress are still seeking to at least partially undo the spending reductions in the Budget Control Act of 2011, despite evidence the Pentagon is wasting taxpayer dollars on overly expensive — and arguably unnecessary — projects.