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Navy Preparing For Year-Long CR

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

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Navy Preparing For Year-Long CR

Richard V. Spencer, former Secretary of the Navy. He resigned on November 24, 2019. (Photo: U.S. Navy).

The Secretary of the Navy has directed plans to prepare for a potential one-year continuing resolution (CR), should delayed defense appropriations not get resolved by the end of the year. “We have done planning for a short - the stated CR - and then I have made sure that we are now looking at a one-year CR, it looks like,” Secretary Richard Spencer told reporters today at a Heritage Foundation press roundtable. Last month, Congress passed a CR to fund…

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