House GOP Appropriators Rebuke Trump's $350 Billion Pentagon Funding Plan
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Updated · POLITICO · Jun 22
House GOP Appropriators Rebuke Trump's $350 Billion Pentagon Funding Plan
3 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Jun 22
Summary
House Republican appropriators plan to release a report this week calling the Trump administration’s military funding strategy “risky and uncoordinated” for routing must-have Pentagon money through reconciliation.
The addendum to the fiscal 2027 defense bill says reconciliation should supplement regular appropriations, not carry critical weapons and equipment funding on a separate track with different committees, timelines and approval rules.
Appropriators specifically faulted Trump’s budget for splitting F-35 funding between annual spending bills and the party-line package, complicating support for the Pentagon’s costliest program.
The rebuke lands as Trump pushes Congress to pass a $350 billion defense reconciliation bill, even though many Republicans doubt GOP leaders can assemble another party-line package this year.