Senate appropriators slash Pentagon's CPGS funding request, creating conference issue

By Jordana Mishory / May 27, 2016 at 2:00 PM
Senate appropriators have slashed the Pentagon's budget request for the Conventional Prompt Global Strike program, creating a potential conference issue with the House. The fiscal year 2017 defense spending bill the Senate Appropriations Committee approved May 26 seeks to provide $101.3 million for the CPGS program. This is an $80 million cut from the amount the Pentagon requested for the program intended to strike targets anywhere in the world in under an hour using non-nuclear weapons. The report accompanying the...

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