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Budget

House Passes Defense Policy Bill

Julie Samuel

Monday, June 17th, 2013

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The House passed the annual defense authorization bill via a 315-108 margin last Friday, after adding a requirement to sell F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan and rejecting members’ attempts to cut funding in the overall legislation. The bill, which sets Pentagon policy for fiscal year 2014, authorizes a $552.1 billion base defense budget and $85.8 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) war funding. It does not reflect the $500 billion in decade-long “sequestration” budget cuts that started in March. It…

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