Pentagon officials made clear Thursday they would "like to have" the additional $30 billion in fiscal year 2017 as requested by a White House budgetary amendment, but not at the expense of a yearlong continuing resolution, or government shutdown, which some experts think the FY-17 package might trigger. John Roth, who is serving as the acting Pentagon comptroller, did not characterize the FY-17 supplemental request as emergency funding, but did say it is vitally important that Congress not come to...
