
The House of Representatives passed a new continuing resolution (CR) late Dec. 21 that would keep the federal government open until Jan. 19 and provide billions of dollars in emergency funding for missile defense and Navy ship repairs.The CR (H.R. 1370), which was headed to the Senate for its consideration, would provide about $4 billion that the Trump administration requested in November for various ballistic missile defense efforts, including construction of another long-range interceptor field at Fort Greely, Alaska, to defend…