The Trump administration is seeking a $30 billion increase to the Pentagon's fiscal year 2017 budget, a promissory note on larger plans going forward to try to reverse cuts to military spending stemming from the 2011 Budget Control Act, which has cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the Defense Department's since 2012. On March 16, the Pentagon published details of the White House-proposed FY-17 budget amendment, a request that may not be politically viable because it would breach spending...
