Trump’s supplemental budget request faces uphill fight in Congress

Published March 16, 2017 12:49pm ET



President Trump’s fiscal year 2017 supplemental budget request for the Defense Department and national security priorities will require Congress to change the budget caps for a fiscal year that’s nearly half over, according to budget documents released Thursday.

That makes the supplemental far more likely to stall on Capitol Hill, where it can take months and much compromise to hammer out a new budget deal.

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