
The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Monday he may be open to boosting the fiscal year 2025 defense topline above the one percent spending cap from last year’s debt limit deal if Congress is unable to pass the pending supplemental with foreign aid and funds to replenish the Pentagon’s weapon stockpiles. “Without a supplemental we’re in, sort of, unknown [territory]. Just keeping our Defense Department operating efficiently [and] effectively would be potentially jeopardized. So, yes, we have…