Lawmakers Reject Pentagon Bid to Spend War Funds on F-35s
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Lawmakers have rejected the Pentagon’s request to shift as much as $1.5 billion in war spending to buy eight new Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 jets and 21 additional Boeing Co. AH-64 Apache helicopters.
The Defense Department asked for the additional jets and helicopters in a Sept. 8 request for permission to shift, or reprogram, about $2 billion in its war operations budget, partly to pay for expanded operations against Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria.