EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, FL -- Defense Secretary Ash Carter blasted Congress for refusing to pass a spending bill until next spring and said the Defense Department will consider requesting exceptions to new-start spending restrictions under an extended continuing resolution. Noting that it is the eighth consecutive year the Defense Department has started a fiscal year without an appropriations bill, Carter called the lack of a fiscal year 2017 spending measure “inefficient in terms of the use of the taxpayer...
