When the new Republican-majority Senate comes to Washington in January, one of its early jobs will be to address the fiscal year 2016 budget–when, under current law, sequestration will return in full. The Democratic administration will release its budget request in February, but one defense expert believes the unified Republican Congress won’t handle the issue much differently than today’s Democratic Senate would have. “Republican party leadership would love to begin reversing sequestration fully” for the defense side of the discretionary…
