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SASC Chair Suggests Reconciliation Should Include $175 Billion For Defense

SASC Chair Suggests Reconciliation Should Include $175 Billion For Defense
Pictured is Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)

Amid a possible shutdown later in the week, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services on Wednesday pledged his support for the Continuing Resolution (CR) passed by the House but suggested more funding was needed in the proposed reconciliation package.  “I would not vote for the CR if there weren’t the prospect of our reconciliation package that begins to give us what we need,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) told reporters, including sister publication The Exchange Monitor, outside the Senate floor…

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