House Dems Block Wall Funds, Slash Sub, But Add F-35s
The House Dems launch the first salvo in what promises to be a long defense budget saga, and they are drawing lines that will be hard to cross.
By Paul McLeary on May 14, 2019 at 3:43 PM
WASHINGTON: House Democrats moved today to strip the Pentagon of the authority to shift money between accounts in a new 2020 defense spending bill, a long-expected response to the White House taking defense dollars for the president’s border wall.
The House Appropriations Committee’s version of the 2020 Pentagon funding bill, which a top Democrat said “rejects the Trump administration’s budgetary gimmicks,†calls for $622 billion in base funding and $68 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations funds, while buying more F-35s and F-15Xs than requested while slashing advance procurement money for a third Virginia-class attack submarine.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/05/house-dems-block-wall-funds-slash-sub-but-add-f-35s/
