The House Armed Services Committee voted 42-17 today to authorize an additional $25 billion in total defense spending above the president’s request for fiscal year 2022, aligning it with a version Senate lawmakers passed last month and setting the stage for congressional appropriators to possibly do the same when a final, bipartisan spending deal is hammered out in the coming months. The significant increase came in the form of an amendment offered by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), the committee’s ranking...
