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Members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees responsible for annual defense authorization have voiced opposition to the White House’s fiscal 2018 budget proposal for differing reasons, raising questions about whether Congress will be able to agree on defense spending levels past the end of this fiscal year.While the committees’ Republicans argue that the White House’s proposed defense funding is inadequate for the military’s needs, Democrats are criticizing non-defense spending cuts in the administration’s proposal, which was released in…
