The White House is instructing the Defense Department and other government agencies to craft a fiscal year 2017 budget that is 5 percent below President Obama's FY-16 request, hewing to spending caps required by the 2011 Budget Control Act, but accompanied by a separate list of "additional investments" that account for another 5 percent in spending, according to a previously unreported memo quietly released by the Office of Management and Budget. Budget analysts are calling the separate list of additional...
