The Pentagon, as of Monday, had not issued department-wide guidance about the possibility of a debt limit default — an event experts say would be a chaotic foray into uncharted territory.

If the government were to take the prioritization route, mandatory spending on social programs would almost certainly come ahead of discretionary defense spending, speculated Arnold Punaro, a former Senate Armed Services Committee staff director and the chairman of the board at the National Defense Industrial Association.

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