
The full House on Wednesday approved a 2020 Pentagon budget of roughly $690 billion as part of five-bill minibus that boosts defense spending relative to 2019, but still comes in below the White House's request. The Democrat-controlled House approved the measure on an essentially party-line vote of 226 to 203. The measure now goes to the Senate, which had yet to craft any appropriations bills at deadline Wednesday. Likewise, the White House and Congress have yet to work out a…