House Appropriations Committee leaders introduced Tuesday the details of their budget blueprint for allocating $1.3 trillion in fiscal 2020 spending, The Hill reported.
The budget proposal is $51 billion more than fiscal 2019 levels and includes a $15.5 billion increase for defense spending, according to Appropriations Committee’s plan.
The plan proposes fiscal 2020 defense base budget spending at $622 billion, as ADC reported.
The military construction and VA spending bill received an $8.1 billion increase in proposed funding, bringing its total to $105.2 billion.
The House’s plan reveals how Democrats propose to distribute defense and nondefense spending among the 12 spending bills that fund the federal government each fiscal year.
It also dismissed President Trump’s 2020 budget request that included deep domestic spending cuts while adding billions to DOD overseas contingency accounts that are a not subject to mandatory spending caps.
The Senate won’t release its budget until later this month as it waits to see if House, Senate and White House negotiators can reach a broader fiscal 2020 spending agreement.
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