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Budget

House Dems Unveil Two-Year Spending Deal With $733 Billion Topline, Higher Caps for DoD

By Vivienne Machi

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019

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House Dems Unveil Two-Year Spending Deal With $733 Billion Topline, Higher Caps for DoD

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

The Democratic-led House Budget Committee released April 2 a new bill that would lift the spending caps for both defense and non-defense funding for the next two fiscal years. The Investing for the People Act of 2019, introduced by House Budget Committee Chair John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), seeks to avoid the “draconian cuts” imposed by the 2011 Budget Control Act, which is scheduled to remain in place through 2021. The bill – which was co-sponsored by House Appropriations Committee Chair Nita…

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