The military could save hundreds of billions — by capping pay, scrapping aircraft, slashing...

Worked in DC area, there were GS12 civilian workers that were not even doing GS9 level work.

If enacted, the lowering of BAH to 80% of rent prices and capping pay raises to 0.5% below civilian pay could be catastrophic to those servicemembers who are stationed in high cost areas. Imagine an E-6 in a place like San Francisco or New York being asked to cover 20% of their housing cost. In San Fran, even with the current COLA offset, we are looking at about $800 a month after tax income. An E-6 over 8 years is schedule to make $3544 in base pay before taxes. At a 30% tax rate plus benefit contribution that is roughly $2400 base pay take home. Which means 1/3 of a service members base pay would go toward housing. Too much of burden in my humble opinion.

There is plenty of waste in the Federal Government and duplication and entire agencies that aren't needed at all. Elected officials aren't going to police themselves and their self serving greed far to often results in them stealing from other places. SES ? no way will any cuts be made there, no instead take away from those that barely make a living. The governments solution to solving problem it to creat another structure to take care of it and of course at an expense to the taxpayers that solves nothing and makes it worse. Just thrown more money at a problem instead of trying to solve it or even determine if the function is even needed. Seems the cuts aren't in the extra fluff but in places that do hurt our very well being including maintaining an effective military instead of stealing from them and limiting their ability to defend us.