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CSBA: Congress Unlikely To Raise Spending Caps Enough to Accommodate Expected DoD FY ’16 Request

Friday, January 30th, 2015

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CSBA: Congress Unlikely To Raise Spending Caps Enough to Accommodate Expected DoD FY ’16 Request

Todd Harrison, director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The Pentagon will unveil its fiscal year 2016 budget request on Monday and ask Congress to give about $35 billion more than the sequestration spending caps allow for defense spending–and a lot of things would have to go right to squeeze all that spending into the final budget.Todd Harrison, senior fellow of defense budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, met with reporters Friday morning to discuss his budget predictions, and he made clear that a grand…

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