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HASC GOP Leader Urging Colleagues to Support Two-Year Budget Deal Despite Lower Defense Topline

HASC GOP Leader Urging Colleagues to Support Two-Year Budget Deal Despite Lower Defense Topline
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), House Armed Services Committee ranking member

The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is pushing his GOP colleagues to support a new two-year budget deal secured this week by the Trump administration and House Democrats, but acknowledged the lower funding topline for defense and impact on the U.S. government’s overall debt may become sticking points. HASC Ranking Member Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) told reporters July 24 that although he would have preferred more than the $738 billion topline allocated for defense in H.R. 3877,…

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