Mulvaney Seems to Have Pulled a Fast One on the Pentagon

Published May 28, 2017 11:30am ET



Rolling out the Trump administration’s formal 2018 budget, acting Pentagon comptroller John Roth confessed that Defense secretary James Mattis “hasn’t spent one moment” looking beyond the coming budget year. But even a cursory glance at the plan makes one wonder whether he paid much attention to this year, either.

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