
Congress is aiming to pass a short-term resolution this week to give it time to craft a longer term budget agreement that avoids automatic spending cuts, known as sequestration, but any budget deal shouldn’t hold increases in defense appropriations hostage to an equal ramp up in domestic funding, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said over the weekend.“Now I want to take the politics out and I want to make the policy in,” McCarthy said last Saturday. “But when you…