WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Congress’s temporary spending plan, the continuing resolution passed this week, avoids a government shutdown but U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin warns it delays missions, undermines readiness and puts the U.S. military at a strategic disadvantage.
The continuing resolution forces the government to spend at exactly the same levels as last year, with little flexibility. U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth wrote a letter to Congressional leaders, telling them, the continuing resolution delays more than $8 billion in planned investments.
“Congress has not gotten enough of its work done,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.)…