Thornberry eyes Pentagon supplemental budget request

By Tony Bertuca / July 25, 2016 at 4:47 PM
House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) has yet to receive a formal request from the Pentagon on an expected supplemental budget request to finance the retention of U.S. troops in Afghanistan as well as additional operations in Iraq and Syria, but he believes the military is now conducting $6 billion worth of activities that were not part of the Obama administration's fiscal year 2017 request. "We clearly need a supplemental," he told reporters Monday. "The department is trying to...

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