WASHINGTON – Calling Republican defence spending plans a “road to nowhere,” Defence Secretary Ash Carter appealed on Wednesday for lawmakers to work with him toward a new bipartisan budget deal to provide stable funding for a US military hurt by years of steep cuts.Carter told a Senate appropriations panel that Republican efforts to try to meet President Barack Obama’s defence funding request were well-intentioned but would not give the Pentagon the flexibility it needed and ultimately would lock in budget cuts Obama has threatened to veto.The president proposed a $534 billion (S$709 billion) Pentagon base budget for the 2016 fiscal …read more
Source: AsiaOne
