Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren unloaded Thursday on Army Secretary Christine Wormuth and Gen. James McConville, the service’s chief of staff, accusing the Army of using family housing to game the budget system.
“At the end of the day, budgets are a statement of our values,” Warren said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Army’s $177.5 billion fiscal 2023 budget request. “I don’t like the statement being made.”
The Army requested $1.9 billion for military construction and family housing in its budget, about 40 percent lower than the fiscal 2022 enacted level, Warren noted. But then the service included $330 million for improving family housing on a separate list of “unfunded priorities.”
