House appropriators this week will take up the biggest of the 12 annual spending bills, the $690 billion Pentagon measure that includes some prickly issues such as funding for Taliban expenses for peace talks with the U.S. and money to give the Pentagon more F-35 fighter jets than it requested, says CQ Roll Call’s senior defense reporter John M. Donnelly. He lays out what is likely to happen to the measure that assumes higher spending levels for fiscal 2020.

Show Notes:

• Air Force defends plan to buy new F-15s, fewer F-35s
• Pentagon knew peace-talks fund would ‘likely’ benefit Taliban
• Congress Again Blocks F-35 Transfers to Turkey