High-End War Capabilities Sneak Into Army’s 2018 Budget
By Sandra Erwin on May 23, 2017 at 5:19 PM
US and Hungarian forces train together in Lithuania. The 2018 budget request makes major increases to such exercises with European allies.
If Congress enacts the Trump administration’s 2018 budget request, many in the Army will be ecstatic. Weapons contractors, maybe not so much.
The $137.2 billion request ($166.1 billion including overseas contingency operations funds) is up by 5 percent from a year ago. It would be the most money the Army has gotten since 2012.
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