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The Trump administration sent Congress a set of Defense Department Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget amendments on Monday to increase funding for missile defense, repair damaged Navy ships, and increase Afghanistan troop levels.The letter introducing the request covers about $4 billion in additional efforts to defend against the threat of North Korean missiles through “enhancements” as well as almost $700 million in costs needed to repair the damaged USS John S McCain (DDG-56) and USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62).Both ships were involved…
