The Defense Department could be forced to strip more than $260 billion in planned spending from its fiscal year 2020 and 2021 budgets if discretionary spending caps required by the Budget Control Act for those two years are not adjusted, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO's Final Sequester Report for 2018 , published April 2, estimates the revised spending caps for the two remaining years of the BCA would limit national defense spending to...
