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WASHINGTON \u2014 Details of President Joe Biden\u2019s first defense budget<\/a> won\u2019t be out until Friday, but lawmakers on the left and right have already drawn out their lines for the battle ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Hill progressives<\/a>, the plan is a more strategic, surgical attack than in the past to rein in parts of what they view as an ever-expanding military slush fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For congressional Republicans<\/a>, it\u2019s a blunt force message that the defense budget is actually far too low to counter a growing Chinese military and other potential threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And starting next month, the fighting begins, with moderate Democratic leaders left to find a path to victory between the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Left-leaning Democrats have proposed broad defense cuts before, but House Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Mark Pocan, D-Wis., said he expects group members to try some new ideas once budget season kicks off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of indiscriminate across-the-board cuts that moderate Democrats have rejected before, the new strategy could mean looking at targeted trims instead. While Pocan didn\u2019t get specific, progressives could weigh in on a brewing fight<\/a> over how many big-ticket Lockheed-made F-35 fighters <\/a>Congress will buy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome of it could be a specific percent and a redirection of what defense dollars go towards,\u201d Pocan told Defense News. \u201cThere are a lot of things that could happen, but the one thing that hasn\u2019t changed is we want to have more accountability and a different approach to defense spending.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Pocan led 19 other lawmakers in an 11th-hour call for Biden to shift what they saw as a post-Afghanistan war<\/a> \u201cpeace dividend\u201d from the defense budget toward domestic problems. They pegged the savings at $50 billion \u2014 in line with a separate letter<\/a> from a coalition of 40 advocacy groups \u2014 and asked Biden for a full accounting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than have that money return to military equipment and training, the lawmakers suggested it be reallocated to, \u201cend homelessness in the United States, provide increased health coverage to Americans in need, or contribute to the ongoing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 09: Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) speaks during the “No War With Iran” Rally for Moveon.org at the U.S. Capitol on January 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel\/Getty Images for MoveOn.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Senate\u2019s lead progressive, Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a>, I-Vt., has introduced a bipartisan bill that would, if passed, punish the Pentagon if it continues to fail financial audits. Starting in fiscal 2022, any Defense Department agency that fails to obtain a clean audit would have to return 1 percent of its budget to the Treasury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we are serious about spending taxpayer dollars wisely and effectively, we have got to end the absurdity of the Pentagon being the only agency in the federal government that has not passed an independent audit,\u201d said Sanders, who co-sponsored the bill with Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Mike Lee, and Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s budget outline \u2014 a $753 billion national defense budget for fiscal 2022, including $715 billion for the Pentagon \u2014 represents a slight increase from fiscal 2021 that just trails the rate of inflation. It\u2019s far short of the 3 to 5 percent boost above inflation that Republican lawmakers are seeking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, the Senate rejected a measure that would have required parity between defense and non-defense spending increases<\/a> by a 44-53 vote. Despite the failure, hawkish Republicans are vowing to keep push for a defense boost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChina\u2019s long-term military investments are paying dividends that should alarm us. But Democrats want to pump the brakes on our own?\u201d Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said ahead of the vote. \u201cFewer resources for our own men and women in uniform? Less defense innovation? What sense does that make?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know the best signal we can send China is a strong military, but a strong military is not free,\u201d said Sen. Jim Inhofe, the Senate Armed Services Committee\u2019s top Republican and a co-sponsor of the parity measure. \u201cI\u2019ll continue working with my colleagues to ensure we are giving our military the resources they need to deter Chinese military aggression and defend our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks during a press conference following the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon in the Hart Senate Office Building on June 30, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Defending Biden\u2019s defense budget plans falls to Capitol Hill\u2019s two Democratic armed services committee chairman. Both Rep. Adam Smith<\/a>, D-Wash., and Sen. Jack Reed<\/a>, D-R.I., are seen as moderates<\/a>, supportive of robust defense spending but mindful of their caucus\u2019 concerns about the Pentagon largesse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is unclear whether Republicans will withhold all support for Democrat-led defense bills, Smith said he sees the path to final fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act going through Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe bill never passes if it\u2019s not bipartisan, we all understand our responsibility,\u201d Smith told Defense News. \u201cAnd that\u2019s [Republicans\u2019] incentive: we want to pass a bill. And there are thousands of things in that bill \u2015 or hundreds \u2015 that are important, on a whole series of policy levels, on a bipartisan basis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith said he was in negotiations with House leadership over the timing of his panel\u2019s NDAA markup, but said it would likely be delayed until early September when Congress returns from a month-long summer recess. That leaves less time to pass a final product before the end of the calendar year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a 4,000-page bill. We field somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 requests as to what should be put into the bill, as a starting point. We must go through all of those requests, determine their merit, determine how to handle them, and in many cases negotiate how to make alterations.\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat requires the entering of a staggering amount of policy data. That has to be done well. It can\u2019t be done in a haphazard manner because it might become law. That takes more time than anyone who hasn\u2019t ever done it before realizes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The defense authorization bill has passed out of Congress for 60 consecutive years, making it one of the few reliable legislative vehicles to survive annual skirmishes between Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill. This year\u2019s campaign may prove one of the most difficult yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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