Congress is poised to avert a government shutdown this week with a fiscal year 2017 omnibus appropriations bill that boosts the Pentagon's warfighting account by $15 billion, which is only half of what the Trump administration had sought, setting the stage for yet another partisan battle over spending in FY-18. Though the bill includes a $5.5 billion procurement increase for the Defense Department's Overseas Contingency Operations account, it also forgoes approximately $14 billion in base-budget weapon system procurements the administration...
