Republicans on pins and needles over 'looming defense spending train wreck' (opens in new tab)

Punchbowl News, this looming deadline has congressional Republicans “anxious” over the lack of a plan to move forward. Over the past three months, the Defense Department has been conducting operations in Iran using its annual operations and maintenance budget, which wasn’t crafted with extra money for additional large-scale missions like a war. With the conflict in the Middle East showing little sign of ending once and for all, Pentagon officials are warning that funding for the war could run...