Pentagon budget 2016: HASC subcommittee chair aspires to level FY 2016 spending caps to ease USN budgetary challenges

Significance The USN's fiscal year 2016 budget proposal aligns with US lawmakers' priorities However, the plan breaches the 2011 Budget Control Act spending caps, necessitating re-prioritisation The US policymaker in charge of the lower chamber of Congress's naval affairs subcommittee is pleased