![]() ![]() Top Senate Armed Services Republican, Sen. “I think with Ukraine, you’re going to have to have a supplemental. “They’ve built this incredible mousetrap that we have to figure out,” Reed said of the debt deal. Senate Armed Services Chair Jack Reed (D-R.I.) conceded lawmakers will likely use Ukraine funding to skirt budget caps for defense. “I fully expect there will be more defense spending through the rest of the fiscal year.”Įven some top Democrats want to find a way to boost military spending beyond the limits. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.), who leads the Armed Services subpanel that oversees nuclear weapons. And not just Ukraine, but China remains a growing threat that we have to address,” said Rep. “We have so many troubled areas of the world right now. The debt deal is a loss for many Republicans, and even some Democrats, who had hoped to once again hike defense spending beyond Biden’s aims, which is something they’ve done for the past two years.īut some GOP defense hawks who helped pass the debt deal made clear they don’t view the cap as a ceiling for military spending. The maneuver is reminiscent of how Congress and the Pentagon poured money into special war accounts for Iraq and Afghanistan to get around strict spending caps, a move critics derided as a “slush fund.” It means that an emergency funding bill to support Ukraine’s defense against Russia could become a way to evade the caps. ![]() Capitol Hill reckons with a government funding fight that just got tougher ![]()
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