Missing from Trump’s defense budget: Future plans

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Despite President Trump’s repeated promises to rapidly rebuild the U.S. military over his term in office, the Pentagon currently has no long-term plan to fund the build-up past the next budget year, which begins in October.

Pentagon officials explained they had to scramble just to get the budget together for the coming year, and have had no time to plan for the “out years.”

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