Less than two weeks after cementing another major increase to the Pentagon budget, lawmakers are now talking about going the opposite direction — and even raising the specter of across-the-board cuts that rocked the establishment just over a decade ago.
Incoming Armed Services Chair, who harshly criticized the party’s conservative wing during the chaos over the speaker’s gavel, said he’s “not worried” about the deal affecting defense. Incoming Appropriations Chair, who is set to chair the top defense spending panel, also support additional Pentagon funding.
A deal to vote on spending cuts isn’t part of a rules package governing the House that lawmakers will vote on when they return Monday. Yet defense spending will be part of the calculus for some Republicans.plans to oppose the rules package in part because of his concerns about national security spending.
“I don’t want to see defense cuts,” Mace said. “We don’t know what deals were made, and that’s something that we should be transparent about.” Even if defense becomes a target for fiscal hardliners, McCarthy can’t guarantee cuts. Gutting the domestic funding for this fiscal year that House Democrats enacted on their way out of power will almost certainly be rejected by the Senate, which remains in Democratic hands, and President Joe Biden.
“This backroom deal not only contradicts Republican calls for transparency, but it also kills the 2024 government funding process before it has even started, all but guaranteeing a shutdown,” chided Rep.Roman Schweizer, an analyst with investment firm Cowen, is skeptical cuts will come to fruition but said in a Friday note to investors that spending debates in the divided Congress will still be “a mess.
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