As the budget season heats up, congressional Republicans are focused on two key issues: how much defense spending should be and whether to use a budget maneuver to repeal Obamacare.
By far the largest disagreement between the House and Senate regarding the fiscal year 2016 budget is the level and mechanism by which the two budget committees propose to fund defense priorities.
While there is broad agreement that defense levels are too low to sustain military capabilities at appropriate levels, increasing base defense spending above the Budget Control Act’s spending cap of $523 billion in fiscal year 2016 seems politically impossible.
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