The Pentagon issued an urgent plea Thursday for Congress to pass a fully-funded budget for this year on the eve of a vote to temporarily fund the government at last year’s levels for two more weeks.
The current stop-gap funding measure, known as continuing resolution, expires at the end of the day Friday. A failure to pass a new extension would result in a temporary shutdown of the federal government, which would be highly destructive and waste millions of dollars, Pentagon officials said.
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