Lawmakers today continued to express their dissatisfaction with the Trump administration's fiscal year 2026 defense spending request, as they hold concurrent hearings on Capitol Hill to sort through budget priorities across the Defense Department. The administration has requested almost $893 billion in FY-26 defense funding , which would be bolstered by a pending budget reconciliation bill , bringing total funding to $1 trillion. If the reconciliation bill is not taken into account, the presidential request does not keep pace with...
