Analyst: Budget caps are the biggest problem facing the next president

Published August 2, 2016 5:02pm ET



The next administration will inherit a military that’s preparing to ramp up production on several big-ticket items like the F-35, the bomber and the Ohio-class replacement submarines, but will still be constrained by budget caps that stretch through fiscal 2021 and leave no obvious way to pay for it all.

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