JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Construction at Joint Base Lewis-McChord would increase further if Congress adopts President Obama’s 2012 budget proposal.
The News Tribune reports that the spending plan released Monday would set aside more than $300 million for construction at the base south of Tacoma, up from about $172 million in the 2011 budget proposal Congress has yet to approve.
The newspaper says the 2012 plan would increase total military construction in Washington state to $519 million, about $220 million more than what the Defense Department plans to spend this year. That would rank Washington seventh for military construction money in the country, up from 14th in 2011.
