by ADC | Jan 14, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
The top four appropriators on Capitol Hill met Thursday for the first time since November, restarting talks about spending levels for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1. House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) told CQ that her focus is to pass an...
by ADC | Jan 13, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
Congressional appropriators are scrambling to reach a deal on an omnibus spending package to fund the government for the current fiscal year. The current continuing resolution expires Feb. 18. The tight deadline raises the possibility that they will be forced to pass...
by ADC | Jan 10, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
The Biden administration is likely to delay the release of the fiscal year 2023 budget request, and “congressional staff have been told to expect release sometime in March at the earliest,” CQ reported. One reason seems to be the ongoing negotiations about the current...
by ADC | Jan 10, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
Congress now has less than six weeks until the current continuing resolution expires. If lawmakers can’t reach a deal on appropriations bills for the year that started Oct. 1, they may have to pass yet another CR. ADC Executive Director Matt Borron talks about the...
by ADC | Jan 5, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
House Appropriations Committee leaders seems likely to approve a $740 billion topline spending number for defense, according to Politico’s National Security Daily. That is about $25 billion more than the administration first requested. The higher number is more in...
by ADC | Jan 3, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
As Congress starts its 2022 work, it has just a few weeks until its next big deadline: The current stopgap spending bill expires Feb. 18, and Congress has not yet finalized any of the 12 annual appropriations bills for the fiscal year that started in October....
by ADC | Dec 17, 2021 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
Senate Democratic and Republican appropriations leaders expressed optimism Thursday that they can reach a deal on the 12 annual appropriations bills for the fiscal year that started in October. “I think we’ve got a path forward,” Senate Appropriations Committee Chair...
by ADC | Dec 9, 2021 | Congress/DoD, COVID-19, Defense Budget, Military Families, NDAA, On Base, PFAS
The Senate is expected to pass a compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act in the coming days, following the House’s bipartisan vote Tuesday night. Here are some of the provisions included in the bill, according to news reports and a House Armed...
by ADC | Dec 8, 2021 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, NDAA, On Base
The House passed a new version of the National Defense Authorization Act Tuesday night, authorizing $768 billion in defense spending. That total reflects the $25 billion increase over the President’s budget request that had been added in the original House and Senate...
