
Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) leadership offered support Thursday for the Pentagon’s call to receive congressional help with paying billions of dollars in pandemic-related claims from industry. Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the SASC ranking member, told reporters that funds to cover the defense industrial base’s COVID-19-related costs would have to be included in the next pandemic relief bill or as emergency supplemental funding passed through the appropriation committees. “This is one of those aspects we assume would be in the…