{"id":21940,"date":"2021-09-21T21:02:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T21:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/09\/21\/house-takes-up-progressive-led-defense-spending-cuts-this-week\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:57:17","slug":"house-takes-up-progressive-led-defense-spending-cuts-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/09\/21\/house-takes-up-progressive-led-defense-spending-cuts-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"House takes up progressive-led defense spending cuts this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON\u2015 House progressives will have a few chances to hold down the defense budget this week, but it\u2019s going to be an uphill fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House is set to vote this week on two Democratic amendments to cut the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2021\/09\/02\/defense-spending-increase-afghanistan-withdrawal-dominate-debate-over-defense-policy-measure\/\" target=\"_blank\">fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act<\/a>\u2019s $740 billion top line. One would reduce it by roughly 10 percent, and another would undo a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2021\/09\/01\/house-panel-approves-25-billion-defense-boost\/\" target=\"_blank\">$24 billion a plus-up<\/a> the House Armed Services Committee passed earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key Republicans have warned that cutting the NDAA would cost their support, which Democrats likely need to pass the bill. When the House Rules Committee met Monday to screen amendments, the panel\u2019s top Republican, Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, said his party likes the bill as-is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo long as this bill remains largely in its current form and the funding levels remain where they are, I think you will see overwhelming support from Republicans,\u201d Cole said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the panel advanced a rule that allows consideration of 476 amendments. Among them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A prohibition on funding for the Air Force\u2019s nascent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2021\/09\/09\/lawmakers-set-for-battle-over-next-gen-nuclear-missile\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ground Based Strategic Deterrent<\/a> \u2014 a next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile and its warhead, the W87-1 \u2014 from Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif.<\/li><li>A prohibition on U.S. military forces in Syria without approval from Congress within one year, from Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.<\/li><li>A prohibition on U.S. military logistical and intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/02\/04\/us-ends-support-for-saudi-led-war-in-yemen\/\" target=\"_blank\">support for Saudi air forces<\/a> conducting strikes in the Yemen civil war, from Rep. Ro Khanna. (A separate amendment from House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., would bar U.S. sustainment and maintenance support for those forces, with certain exemptions.)<\/li><li>The top line-lowering amendments are a proposed 10 percent cut (excluding salaries and health care of military personnel), from Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., and proposed reduction of the defense authorization top line to the level requested by the president, from Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2020, the House and Senate defeated twin measures to reduce the Pentagon budget by 10 percent to address the pandemic\u2019s economic fallout. Then, Democrats split, with the Senate voting 23-77 and the House voting 93-324.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Republicans argue President Joe Biden\u2019s budget request is inadequate to counter Russia and China, progressives say that addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and other domestic needs should take precedence over larding the Pentagon\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe face imminent threats from the COVID pandemic, climate change, growing economic inequality, and systemic racial and ethnic inequities [and] also, domestic terrorism,\u201d Lee said. \u201cIt is time to shift our spending priorities to meet these priorities. I personally support much larger cuts to the Pentagon budget.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2021\/08\/02\/defense-top-line-will-probably-go-up-key-dems-see-gop-boost-as-path-to-a-deal\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1329746423.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Defense top line \u2018will probably go up\u2019: Key Dems see GOP boost as path to a deal<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">\u201cThe people who want to spend more than the Biden number have built a lot of support, and yes, I think that is a potential bipartisan pathway,\u201d says House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith. \u201cI don\u2019t support it, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s where we should go, but at the end of the day, I have one vote.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, Democratic leaders \u2015 House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern and HASC Chairman Rep. Adam Smith\u2015 said they don\u2019t like the Republican increase, but they see themselves as outnumbered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom my vantage point, I think we spend too much on our military budget, but I\u2019m clearly in the minority after listening to everybody here speak today,\u201d McGovern said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same hearing, Smith reiterated that he supports Biden\u2019s budget but lost his panel\u2019s vote at markup. There, 14 HASC Democrats voted for the plus-up proposed by HASC ranking member Mike Rogers, R-Ala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think Biden budget was right. But you know, I do believe in democracy. 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