Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), an appropriator and the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said today he is concerned the GOP's reconciliation bill, though it increases funding for defense, could undermine Congress' authority and give the Pentagon a "slush fund." “I think it is an extraordinary mistake,” Reed told reporters today on a Defense Writers Group call. The budget reconciliation proposal put forth by the GOP would increase defense spending by $150 billion in the coming years, with...
