Mattis orders accelerated budget review to fund ‘larger, more capable’ military

Published February 1, 2017 2:02pm ET



Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, just before departing on his first overseas trip to Japan and South Korea, issued urgent guidance to the Pentagon to speed up a review of this year’s budget request, with the goal of greatly increasing funding for what he called “urgent warfighting readiness shortfalls.”

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