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The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday voted 34-25 along party lines to advance its $833.1 billion fiscal year 2025 defense spending bill, which followed debate on the lack of Ukraine aid in the legislation and Democrats’ objection to the inclusion of GOP-proposed “partisan social policy riders.” Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), the House’s top defense appropriator, opened HAC’s markup addressing the limitations imposed by the one percent spending cap from last year’s Fiscal Responsibility Act and defending the decision not to…
