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^- Defense Secretary Ash Carter sent a letter to

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^congressional leaders regarding their prospect

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^of the Continuing Resolution, also known as CR.

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^A CR provides temporary funding to the

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^Department of Defense for fiscal year 2017.

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^- In the letter, Secretary Carter says that

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^he is particularly troubled by information that Congress

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^may be considering a CR through May of next year.

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A short term CR is bad enough, but a CR through May

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means DOD would have to operate under its constraints

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for two thirds of the fiscal year.

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Now in the Secretary's words, this is unprecedented

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and unacceptable especially when we have so many troops

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operating in harm's way.

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- Cook also spoke about the continuing fight against ISIL

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in Iraq and Syria.

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To see more of Tuesday's briefing, head to defense.gov.

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