Pentagon officials' evasive posture on whether they will seek congressional approval before reprogramming $2.5 billion toward construction of a wall on the southwestern border is creating concern on Capitol Hill, where some worry that a “gentleman's agreement” governing the budget process is about to be broken. A senior Defense Department official who briefed reporters at the Pentagon today refused to say whether DOD would bypass years of precedent and reprogram the funding without the approval of congressional defense committees. “It...
