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The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) has advanced its $852.2 billion fiscal year 2025 defense appropriations bill, which works around the debt limit deal’s one percent spending cap and adds nearly $21 billion in “emergency spending." Senate appropriators, who voted unanimously to send the bill to the Senate floor during the committee's markup on Thursday, noted the $2.7 billion, or 3.3 percent, spending increase over FY ‘24 includes additional funds to address priorities in the military services and combatant command’s FY…
