Defense Department Comptroller Mike McCord is spending what are likely to be his final days in the Pentagon drafting a fiscal year 2018 budget for the incoming Trump administration that is $30 billion above the spending caps mandated by law, but he is also girding the department for the fallout from the Republican Congress' decision to defer all appropriations bills until March. Though he and his team are hard at work to provide an FY-18 budget for President-elect Donald Trump's...
