
The Bipartisan Budget Agreement might not preclude a fight in fiscal year 2017 over Pentagon spending, as the chairmen of both congressional armed services committees want to see a greater investment in defense, a Senate Armed Services Committee aide said Monday.The budget deal agreed to by Congress and the White House in October lifted the fiscal 2017 budget caps on defense from $536 billion to $551 billion and sets a limit of about $59 billion for wartime spending, giving a…