Service leaders beg for flexibility as full-year continuing resolution looms

The services are bracing for a yearlong continuing resolution instead of a budget, which maintains funding at last year’s levels even as the military tries to modernize and improve readiness.The No. 2 officers from each of the Defense Department’s military branches told lawmakers Wednesday they need provisions that would allow them to move funding around, or hold onto it until next year, to make sure they can spend on things they need now and wait on what they’re not ready