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Carter Slams HASC Plan To Plug Pentagon Base-Budget Holes With War Funding

Carter Slams HASC Plan To Plug Pentagon Base-Budget Holes With War Funding
Defense Secretary Ash Carter takes a moment to speak with Marines following a room clearing demonstration during a visit to Camp Pendleton Calif., Aug. 27, 2015. DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz

Secretary of Defense Ashton Carton came out guns blazing Wednesday against a proposal by the House Armed Services Committee to redirect $18 billion from war funding to pay for items not covered in the Defense Department’s fiscal year 2017 budget proposal.Carter, along with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, were on Capitol Hill to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Defense (SAC-D). At the same time, HASC Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) was overseeing the…

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