Key congressional committees have reached agreement on a fiscal year 2017 Pentagon appropriations bill that includes an eleventh-hour, nearly $15 billion boost to war spending accounts that allows for $6.5 billion more for weapon system investments and hands a win to proponents of increased defense spending in the protracted fight over FY-17 spending but is half of what President Trump sought. The House Appropriations Committee overnight made public its proposal for a consolidated spending bill to fund the federal government...
