US House Considers Breaking Civilian-Military Precedent

The incoming Trump administration faced its first test on Capitol Hill Wednesday, as House Republicans, trying to speed up the nomination of the president-elect’s pick for secretary of defense, called a government funding bill into question just hours before it was to expire. The debate strikes at the heart of a long-held principle of American government that separates the military from the civilian. It began when House Republicans added a waiver to the short-term continuing resolution...

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