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HASC Chair Says DoD Needs Supplemental

By Marc Selinger

Monday, July 25th, 2016

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HASC Chair Says DoD Needs Supplemental

Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) urged the Obama administration July 25 to send a supplemental funding request to Congress to pay for new military operations not covered in the president’s fiscal year 2017 budget proposal.Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) told reporters that he has heard “rumblings” in the Pentagon that officials estimate they will need an extra $6 billion or so to carry out military activities in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere that the administration did not…

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