Skip to content
RollCall logo

Podcasts

Defense spending battle lines

CQ Budget, Ep. 246

Chairman Jack Reed, left, and ranking member Sen. Jim Inhofe are seen at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in 2021. Disputes in the panel over defense spending could stall appropriations.
Chairman Jack Reed, left, and ranking member Sen. Jim Inhofe are seen at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in 2021. Disputes in the panel over defense spending could stall appropriations. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)
By David Lerman and Peter Cohn
Posted June 17, 2022 at 1:48pm

A bipartisan Senate defense authorization bill upped the ante on defense spending for the coming fiscal year. CQ Roll Call’s David Lerman and Peter Cohn explain the new battle lines over defense spending that could stall appropriations.

Show Notes:

Recent Stories

Capitol Lens | Sun city

Fireworks are seen over the National Mall early Monday morning after the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House.

Fight night: FISA and beyond

John Thune conducts a news conference at the Capitol in May, surrounded by his leadership lieutenants. As the midterms approach, the Senate majority leader is looking back on his first year and a half on the job.

Inside John Thune’s arithmetic

Rogers arrives for the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the Defense Department budget on May 12. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Rogers earmarks money for nonprofits he helped launch

Republican Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, dives to tag out Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., at third base during the Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park on June 10, 2026.

Sporting it out  — Congressional Hits and Misses

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche leaves the vice president’s office in the Senate Reception Room to meet with Republican senators in the Mansfield Room in May.

Court extends block on ‘anti-weaponization’ fund