The White House is seeking a fiscal year 2017 budget amendment that would break spending caps agreed to by congressional Republicans and Democrats and could lead to a shutdown that might ultimately endanger additional defense spending this year. The budgetary amendment, sometimes called the "supplemental," was released Thursday by the White House as an accompaniment to the Trump administration's blueprint for FY-18 . The amendment seeks to increase defense base budget spending by $25 billion and boost the Pentagon's...
