HAPPENING TODAY: It’s budgetpalooza at the Pentagon, as across Washington the wraps are taken off the Trump administration’s $716 billion budget request for fiscal 2019, which begins in October. This is the first budget prepared from the ground up by the Trump team, and for the Pentagon that means it is designed to dovetail with the recently released National Defense Strategy and Nuclear Posture Review. Here’s today’s schedule:

12 noon. Pentagon Comptroller David Norquist and Lt. Gen. Anthony Ierardi, director, force structure, resources and assessment on the Joint Staff, roll out the budget in the Pentagon Briefing Room, followed by an afternoon of service-specific briefings.

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