Defense budget analyst sees tall order for gridlocked Congress

By Tony Bertuca / August 10, 2016 at 5:33 PM
A new report from a Washington think tank highlights current and future challenges facing defense spending, while the GOP-dominated Congress is expected to continue a bitter budget battle with Democrats and the White House when lawmakers return from summer recess next month. Unsurprisingly, the continued enforcement of the 2011 Budget Control Act is among the Defense Department's most vexing problems, according to an Aug. 5 report by Kate Blakeley, a defense budget analyst at the Center from Strategic and Budgetary...

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