John Phelan: “There's no incentive to cut costs in the Navy.”

“I would have thought there'd be much more accountability around our spend and how we look at it. And again, I don't blame the Navy. I think it's kind of the … There's no incentive to cut costs in the Navy. … to run it. And until we get an audit done, until we really look at numbers and how to understand things, that's a hard question to answer.” (47:48–47:55)

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