The U.S. military budget has suffered close to the “worst-case” outcome since enactment of the 2011 Budget Control Act, according to the Pentagon comptroller, who said the fiscal year 2017 budget will press for about $100 billion more than allowed by law through FY-21 -- a gambit to limit total reductions to DOD planned spending to $800 billion. Mike McCord, the Pentagon comptroller, said during a Nov. 30 speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that the three,...
