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After House OKs Debt Limit Bill, GOP Senators Push Supplementals To Increase Defense Spending

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, June 1st, 2023

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After House OKs Debt Limit Bill, GOP Senators Push Supplementals To Increase Defense Spending

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) speaks on the Senate floor on June 1, 2023: Screenshot from livestream.

After the House passed a bill to lift the debt ceiling that also caps defense spending for the next two years, Republicans Senators on Thursday pushed for supplemental funding measures as a means to pursue increases for the Pentagon’s budget. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee and its defense panel, was among GOP lawmakers urging the upper chamber to commit to the use of supplementals for defense spending increases before taking up the debt limit…

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