Analysis: What Matters Most in the NDAA
Obscurities and omissions define this year’s defense authorization bill
Posted May 14, 2018 5:03 AM
John M. Donnelly
The massive defense authorization bill approved by the House Armed Services panel early Thursday morning is a consequential measure — but not for the reasons most people think.
The $708.1 billion bill, which the House plans to debate the week of May 21, would endorse the largest budget for defense since World War II, adjusting for inflation and when war spending is taken out of the equation.
But the measure does not actually provide a single penny. That is the job of appropriators, though they generally follow the authorizers’ suit.
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