The Obama administration has registered a first-ever explicit objection to an Israeli missile defense funding increase after lawmakers added $455 million -- more than 200 percent above the White House's fiscal year 2017 proposal -- while simultaneously cutting $324 million needed to improve U.S. ballistic missile defense. The White House Office of Management and Budget, in a statement of administration policy on the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal year 2017 defense spending bill, flatly objected to the mark that would add...
