
The Senate Armed Services' Committee's (SASC) $923.3 billion defense authorization bill will wait for a floor vote until after the July 4 recess, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the Senate's president pro tempore, said on June 18. Murray told reporters after the body's weekly policy lunches that she and other Democrats will not agree to a defense increase while other domestic needs remain unmet. Murray wants concomitant increases for those needs as well. SASC passed its version of the fiscal 2025…