Senators seek budget flexibility for Pentagon

Military Times: WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators with authority over military readiness are urging Senate appropriators to grant flexibility in spending its large, but late, budget boost for 2018.

The seven senators on the Senate Armed Services’ readiness subpanel have asked the leaders of the Senate Appropriations subpanel to consider changes, arguing Congress’s tardy budgeting has unfairly penalized the Pentagon in a March 5 letter.

The proposal is roughly in line with a proposal from the chairwoman of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, and others.

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