The House plan to bypass sequestration-level spending caps by shifting about $20 billion from the Pentagon's base budget to its wartime funding account poses challenges to readiness levels, the Navy and Marine Corps vice chiefs told Congress last week. The House and Senate passed non-binding budget resolutions last week that would cap the Defense Department's base budget at $499 billion in fiscal year 2016 in accordance with the 2011 Budget Control Act, but would boost the Pentagon's overseas contingency operations...
