SASC, HASC Want More DoD $$ For 2017; Odds Are Long

SASC, HASC Want More DoD $$ For 2017; Odds Are Long
SASC, HASC Want More DoD $$ For 2017; Odds Are Long

WASHINGTON: The budget deal setting spending levels for 2016 and 2017 is less than a month old, but pro-defense legislators already want to revisit. A top aide to Sen. John McCain said the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman and his allies will “absolutely” try to revise the 2017 Pentagon topline upward. But our sources —…