Republican House and Senate Armed Services committee members, setting the stage for another spending battle with Democrats and the White House, say they want President Biden to request a fiscal year 2023 national defense budget that is 5% larger than the "inflation-adjusted" amount Congress just enacted for FY-22, which was $782 billion. The GOP lawmakers, in a new letter to Biden , do not specifically say what rate of inflation they want Biden to use, and a spokeswoman did not...
