Week ahead: Pentagon seeks flexibility on $700B budget

The Hill: Generals and administration officials will take the hot seat in the coming week to testify on President Trump's fiscal 2019 budget request.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, whose hearings last month were canceled after his father died, is now scheduled to testify Thursday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Tillerson can expect a grilling on the proposed 26 percent cut to the State Department's budget, with particular emphasis on the military's support for fully funding the department.

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