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Budget

DoD Budget Rollout Likely Pushed Back To Mid-March

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, February 4th, 2019

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DoD Budget Rollout Likely Pushed Back To Mid-March

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

MONTEREY, Calif. -- The president’s fiscal year 2020 budget request for the Pentagon is likely to be delayed until mid-March and will arrive in two parts, a skinny budget followed by the full request a week later, a staff member on the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee said Monday. Congressional staffer John Lucio told attendees here at NDIA’s Tactical Wheeled Vehicles Conference he received a notice this morning that the Office of Management and Budget has indicated to Congress the budget…

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