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House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is prodding his fellow lawmakers to reach an agreement on a fiscal year 2018 budget, saying that the lack of such a deal is worsening the military’s already severe readiness problems.At his weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill Jan. 11, Ryan said that too few planes, ships and soldiers are ready to deploy and that service members are dying as a result. For example, he said the two Navy destroyers involved in fatal collisions in…
