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Pass or fail, this stand-alone vote on defense spending would be a tough one for Democratic lawmakers who have demanded that each defense dollar be matched in domestic spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know whether or not this amendment will succeed, but the Senate must have this debate and senators must choose a side,&#8221; McCain, R-Ariz., said at a May 19 event at Brookings&#8217; Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A preview of the spending debate is contained in <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.militarytimes.com\/static\/pdfs\/McCain-FY17-NDAA.pdf\">McCain&#8217;s May 20 &#8220;dear colleague&#8221; letter<\/a>, in which he pressed for more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and Army helicopters, as well as more F-18 fighter jets and accelerated shipbuilding on the Virginia-class submarine and Raleigh Burke destroyer. He is also seeking more money to support local forces fighting the Islamic State group and Taliban respectively. He also favors halting planned drawdowns for the Army and Marine Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCain acknowledged the 2015 budget deal as a &#8220;necessary compromise&#8221; but said the president&#8217;s budget funds defense at $17 billion less than Defense Department\u00a0leaders planned in their five-year plan \u2014 and argued the military services are left &#8220;underfunded, undersized, and unready to meet current and future threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House, in attempting to raise the authorization for defense spending but not alter the defense top-line break in the 2015 budget deal, passed a version of the 2017 NDAA that uses $23 billion in wartime funding to pay for base budget needs. 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The House Appropriations Committee last week approved a defense spending bill that takes a similar approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCain signaled weeks ago that he planned to take a different approach,\u00a0while the White House has issued a threat to veto such legislation, and Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Democratic leadership have condemned the House plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"rte rte-comment\">Potentially, <\/span>McCain&#8217;s request for more defense spending could rally Democrats to ask for more non-defense spending \u2014 a prospect that would awaken the ire of fiscal hawks, particularly House Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My instinct that Sen. 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