Carter: Budget Instability Jeopardizes US Interests
By: Joe Gould, September 22, 2016 (Photo Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — US Defense Secretary Ash Carter urged lawmakers Thursday to “come together” on a budget deal, saying the nation’s security interests are at risk.
Under fire from Republicans at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Carter defended the Obama administration’s 2017 budget request for its compliance with last year’s all-but-unraveled bipartisan budget deal. Carter appeared beside Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford.
“We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets because lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our DoD enterprise,” Carter said.
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