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Appropriations committee advances $831.5 billion defense bill despite missing administration budget books
Summary
House appropriators voted to report the fiscal 2026 Defense Appropriations bill after a daylong markup dominated by complaints that the White House had not supplied full budget justification materials.
House appropriators voted to report the fiscal 2026 Defense Appropriations bill after a daylong markup dominated by complaints that the White House had not supplied full budget justification materials. The committee recommendation for defense discretionary funding totals $831,500,000,000.
The Appropriations Committee's debate repeatedly returned to the absence of the Department of Defense's detailed budget books and program justifications normally provided to Congress. "We did not have this information," Representative Betty McCollum, ranking member of the Defense Subcommittee, said during opening remarks, adding that the omission made it "completely unacceptable" to write the bill without standard…
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