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The DoD Payroll Just Got Smaller

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On The Gist, Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing.

The Pentagon's third-in-command is reportedly losing his job, and it's hardly making news. As the Defense Department's first-ever chief management officer, John Gibson is in charge of saving billions of dollars for reinvestment. He's to be fired because of a reported "lack of performance," but Defense News' Aaron Mehta says the task was nearly impossible in the first place.

In the Spiel, who really wrote that New York Times op-ed?

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