Republicans in Mad Scramble to Placate Defense Hawks

Republican leaders are in a mad scramble to shower tens of billions of dollars more on the Defense Department to persuade defense hawks to back the House and Senate budget blue prints next week and to signal their resolve to bolster the military in the war against ISIS terrorists. “The process is broken,” Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), a fiscal conservative opposed to the defense spending political gamesmanship, told The Wall Street Journal. On Thursday, the Republican controlled House and Sen