The report found the Selective Service System wouldn’t be able to deliver the Pentagon the first inductees within the required 193 days. Also, the system estimated that it would need $465 million to perform a draft.
The system’s budget now is about $23 million annually.
Now I'm trying to remember if any Dems proposed abolishing the draft back in like 2004 or 06.
Not that I could see, but I found this lmao.
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They would find the money...
Oh I agree, the current shortfall just adds to the amusement