Budget delay has repercussions for Pentagon

Published November 12, 2019 6:23pm ET



Bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations committees meet today to seek agreement on extending a continuing resolution to fund the federal government, and with it, the Pentagon, for another month. An existing stopgap resolution to fund the government at last year’s level will expire next week.

The lack of a confirmed federal budget has repercussions for the Pentagon, which cannot tap into the $22 billion added to the defense budget for fiscal year 2020.

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