Another Continuing Resolution Extension Adds BMD Spending But Risks Planned Ship Buys
By: Megan Eckstein
December 22, 2017 12:26 PM
Congress passed another continuing resolution to keep the government open until Jan. 19, inserting into the bill an additional $4.7 billion in missile defense-related spending but putting in peril a flurry of planned ship buys in January.
This year, Fiscal Year 2018, began with a continuing resolution, which was extended just before it expired on Dec. 8. Lawmakers then punted the decision two weeks, and last night Congress again pushed their tough budget decisions down the road by four more weeks.
In addition to extending the CR, the bill passed by lawmakers Thursday night and signed by President Donald Trump this morning adds $673.5 million in emergency funding to the Navy’s operations and maintenance account “for necessary costs to repair damage to the U.S.S. John S. McCain and the U.S.S. Fitzgerald,†both of which were damaged in fatal collisions earlier this year.
https://news.usni.org/2017/12/22/another-continuing-resolution-extension-adds-bmd-spending-risks-planned-ship-buys#more-30211
