Party’s over: Next Pentagon budget hurtles toward Hill fights and delays

Published October 9, 2018 4:00am ET



On a Friday afternoon, just two days before the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, the White House announced that President Trump had signed into law annual funding for the Pentagon.

At the Pentagon, budgeteers heaved a sigh of relief after years of late funding and stopgap budget measures that caused havoc for military planning.

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