
The fiscal year 2016 budget request will reflect the recent increase in demand for U.S. military actions, but the Defense Department needs some help from Congress making ends meet in the short-term, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told the Senate on Tuesday. “The budget that we will be coming up here presenting, as you know, in a few months will contain what we believe will is going to be required to carry forward for the longer term this effort,” Hagel said…