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For hard-pressed American taxpayers, the NDAA is too large. While the U.S. does face an increasingly challenging geopolitical landscape, spending hundreds of billions of dollars on obsolete or wasteful platforms, such as the F-35, will not make America any safer. Congress should instead reduce and redirect spending to more cost-effective and beneficial platforms for security.