by ADC | Sep 6, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
Congress is likely to settle on an $833 billion defense spending level – when it gets around to passing a spending bill – Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) said this week, as Defense News reported. The topline figure he predicted is in line with a bipartisan budget agreement....
by ADC | Sep 3, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
Lawmakers don’t return to D.C. until next week, but discussions are already happening about how to fund the government when the current fiscal year ends in less than a month. Punchbowl News reported Monday that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will propose a...
by ADC | Aug 2, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved the fiscal year 2025 defense spending bill Thursday. It raises defense spending by 3.3% over the current year’s spending. “I am especially glad this bill provides new resources to make sure the men and women who...
by ADC | Jul 31, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
Lawmakers are almost certain to rely on a stopgap spending bill to continue government operations at the current budget levels past Sept. 30, when the fiscal year ends. No one expects the House, Senate and White House to agree on 12 annual spending bills in the next...
by ADC | Jul 30, 2024 | Defense Budget, On Base
Future defense “budgets will require spending that puts defense and other components of national security on a glide path to support efforts commensurate with the U.S. national effort seen during the Cold War,” according to new recommendations from the Commission on...
by ADC | Jul 26, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
The Senate Appropriations Committee will consider its version of the fiscal year 2025 defense spending bill Aug. 1, along with several other spending bills. The hearing will be livestreamed. The House has passed several spending bills on the house floor but not the...
by ADC | Jul 17, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
ADC is hosting a webinar Thursday at 3 p.m. Eastern time to share the latest on defense legislation on Capitol Hill. Register here to join the webinar. Participants will get an insiders’ look at the discussions lawmakers are having about the federal budget, defense...
by ADC | Jul 11, 2024 | Defense Budget, On Base
The Senate’s top appropriators, Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), have reached an agreement to increase the defense budget by 3.4% and the non-defense budget by 2.7%, AP reported. Those figures will set up a showdown with the House. Their...
by ADC | Jul 1, 2024 | Defense Budget, On Base
The House Friday passed its version of the fiscal year 2025 defense appropriations bill, along with two other spending bills. It will next work to reconcile them with Senate spending bills, which are not completed. “You have to have a place to start, a negotiating...