Joe sure. They asked it earlier this month, and what it is, it is the annual defense policy bill in the senate version, in this case, they authorized about 56 billion in funding and related provisions for the pentagon. That 696 billion figure, it exceeds the cap set in the budget control act. How will congress reconcile that . Joe that is a huge question. The budget cap for defense, the know is 549 billion. So what it would take to ease the spending cap is a change in the law, and a change in the law takes 60 votes in the senate, and 60 votes in the senate takes Senate Democrats. So what we know is that if Senate Democrats have leverage, in this deal, they are likely to press for more on the nondefense budget, which is likely to lower the defense side of the budget. Thats 596 billion number we are talking about is likely to come down. Lets go to investments, what does this bill called for in terms of ships and planes . Joe what is interesting about this bill, what we have heard from the white house, or from the president definitely on the campaign trail about a largescale military buildup but we do not really see that in this bill. The white house number was about 603 billion, excluding wartime special wartime funds, so the republicans who are prodefense have actually criticized it as too little. But we do see a number of ships, jets, even ports structures that exceed what the Trump Administration has asked for. The headline at defensenews. Com House Armed Services panel overwhelmingly approving the Armed Services, the Defense Authorization measure. It includes a new branch of the military, the space core. How did this come about and what would that entail . Joe this is a fairly controversial provision within the bill that was discussed at markup. Mike rodgers, republican from alabama who chairs the Strategic Forces subcommittee, and his democratic counterpart jim cooper have both expressed frustration with the pace at which the u. S. Is keeping up with russia and china and the militarization of space, so what they want to do is break out a new space corps, a force subordinate to the air force but outside the air force. There has been pushback from other members of the Armed Services committee, not just democrats, republicans who say this needs more study. The air force itself feels like it is an additional layer of bureaucracy. And of course it is going to have to get reconciled with the senate Armed Services version of the bill, which does not contain that. It is passed out of committee overwhelmingly. How about when it goes to the the same sort of support . And tell us what may be ahead in the Senate Debate on authorization . Joe typically the authorization bill passes in the house. It gets a wide array of support. Right now as we are talking, i think there is 90 plus amendments that the rules committee is considering. Next week, they plan to meet on tuesday to hear from the House Armed Services Committee Chairman and a ranking member, adam smith. And then on wednesday, theyre going to, the rules committee that is, they are going to consider amendments on whether they are to be considered on the floor. We have been told to expect Floor Consideration on thursday and potentially a vote on friday, although that is in the hands of the house leadership. Joe gould covers congress for defense news. You can read his reporting at defensenews. Com, and he is also on twitter. reporterjoe. Thank you for being with us. Joe thank you. That have been 300 amendments filed in the rules committee for the defense bill, bringing the total to nearly 400. You can watch the debate later this week. Sunday on cspan speaking up about the corruption will get you in some us trouble. Saudi arabias womens rights alsharif talks about rights in her book drive. Daring to drive. We cannot drive. We wanted to change this by this movement, and the movement is going on. We have never stopped. The start of the campaign for the right to drive. Civil, it is an act of disobedience. Women are able, capable of driving our own lives and being in the drivers seat of our own destiny by doing this act of civil disobedience. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Now a look at the future of medicaid as republicans continue their effort to repeal and replace the health care law. This will include healthcare officials that manage at either state or health care to or federal level. Hosted by the alliance for health policy, it is just over an hour and a half. Hello, everybody. Welcome to todays briefing on understanding whats next for medicaid. Im sarah, the president of the alliance for health policy. Its a pleasure to be with you today
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