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 th
Gridlock. We get to the bigbudget news. Supplemental. 2018 appropriations. What did we see on capitol hill last week . We saw the president s first budget blueprint. And what he wants to do with his term. Do just what he wants to over the term, but what he wants to do immediately for defense. He wants to change the current. Iscal year as well as what he wants to do over the next four years. In hard to invest power, the tools of strength as he defines them. And take money away from other government priorities. Gets credit for choosing making choices and making tradeoffs, but hes receiving a lot of blowback and a lot of criticism. Us about the blowback hes gettin B Defense Department and meals on wheels are not mutually exclusive . Because he is breaking the gentlemans agreement since the budget control act passed in 2011, it is basically an unofficial choice that there are dollars for defense and dollars for nondefense. That both will increase in tandem. Mr. Trump wants to throw out tha
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