TRUMP DELAYS DEFENSE PROCUREMENT BOOST, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments writes via your Morning D correspondent: The Trump administration requested $125.2 billion in procurement funding for the Pentagon in fiscal 2018, putting off any substantial growth until future years, the CSBA reports.
That amount represents an increase of only $819 million more than the amount appropriated in fiscal 2017 and comes in advance of the finalization of a National Defense Strategy that will inform future force structure, the report says.
"This phased approach to increasing the size of the military means that any substantial growth in procurement funding over prior years' budgets will occur in the PB 2019 budget request at the earliest, rather than in PB 2018," the report says.