The House Budget Committee formally released the GOP's spending resolution for fiscal year 2017 , which allocates $574 billion for base budget national security spending and $74 billion for Defense and State department overseas contingency operations accounts. The committee issued a statement touting the new resolution and its strengthening of national security. “For fiscal year 2017, this budget provides $551 billion in base national defense funding -- a level established by last year’s Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015,” the FY-17...
