Pentagon crafts supplemental budget request amid political pressure

By Tony Bertuca / February 28, 2017 at 4:22 PM
After negotiating with Republican lawmakers and the White House Office of Management and Budget, the Defense Department plans to submit a fiscal year 2017 supplemental budget request of approximately $30 billion, according to several sources from the Pentagon and Capitol Hill. While the figure is higher than some GOP defense hawks had feared, details on the supplemental request remain scarce and subject to change as OMB is not expected to officially send it to Congress until some time after March...

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