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WASHINGTON \u2015 Senate work on the annual defense authorization bill will be delayed until midsummer because of the ongoing wait for President Joe Biden\u2019s federal budget outline<\/a>, a delay that could complicate a host of military personnel policy and procurement plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., said officials made the \u201cdifficult\u201d decision to postpone the full committee markup of the massive authorization bill until at least July \u201cbecause of the uncertainty of the timing of the president\u2019s budget submission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The markup usually takes place in May. Military leadership \u2014 including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin<\/a> and the military service chiefs \u2014 will testify on the defense budget needs for fiscal 2022 in June, three months later than their typical annual schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[The delay] leaves May for hearings specifically on [Defense Department] nominations,\u201d Reed said. \u201cWe now have 23 nominations, including three military combat commanders and two nominees to the National Nuclear Security Administration. Getting these nominees confirmed as quickly as possible will require many hearings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the outgoing Trump administration\u2019s uncooperativeness with the Biden team\u2019s transition efforts, the new administration has had a slow start with the budget as well as defense nominees (before finally making major headway in recent days with nominees to the Pentagon<\/a> and the Air Force<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pentagon spending<\/a>, policy<\/a> and nominations<\/a> will be jostling for attention in a busy Congress. Democrats, with control of Washington for the first time in years, have an ambitious agenda to pass big bills not normally seen in an administration\u2019s first year, including bills aimed at pandemic relief, infrastructure investments, voting rights and competition with China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senate\u2019s delay comes a week after House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., warned<\/a> that the White House\u2019s sluggish release of its budget plans are endangering Congress\u2019 ability to finish budget work before the start of the new fiscal year, Oct. 1, 2021. That suggests Washington will have to deploy a stopgap continuing resolution<\/a> to avoid a government shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt has not been made clear to me that folks [in the White House] understand this: If we don\u2019t get the budget by a certain time frame, we can\u2019t mark up the appropriations bills and the defense bill,\u201d Smith said during an American Enterprise Institute event. \u201cIf we slip past the middle of May, my staff tells me, we will not be able to do any of those things before August.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, Chairman of the House Armed Service Committee, asks a question about the F-35A Lightning II during a visit at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., Oct. 10, 2019. The 12th-term congressman was briefed on how the 56th Fighter Wing is cost effectively modernizing the F-35 training and education by focusing on the student. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jensen Stidham)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration is on track to be the second latest of any budget request. If the delay goes beyond May 23, it will be the new record holder, according to a new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies<\/a>. Data over the last three decades shows a ripple effect: When the budget has been more than a week late, defense appropriations have been an average of 110 days late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSubmitting the budget request in a timely manner is important to good governance,\u201d said CSIS Director of Defense Budget Analysis Todd Harrison. \u201cIt ensures there is sufficient time for oversight and careful consideration of major funding decisions, and it is essential to limiting the disruption and inefficiency caused by extended CRs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White House officials on April 9 unveiled plans for $715 billion in defense spending next fiscal year as part of a $1.5 trillion budget plan, but has yet to provide lawmakers with a detailed accounting of how the money will be spent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That budget plan provides the backbone for the annual defense authorization bill, which includes legislative language for defense policy priorities, including items like expanding combat roles for women, Pentagon management reforms and family housing improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The massive measure in recent years has also been home to a host of other measures, such as the annual military pay raise, recruiting and retention bonuses, equipment spending priorities, and long-term modernization plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a typical year, when the president submits a full budget plan to Congress in February, work on the authorization act involves dozens of public hearings, hundreds of behind-the-scenes meetings, and at least six months of work between the House and Senate committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last 11 years, Congress has sent a final version of the measure to the White House for final signature before Oct. 1 only once. Seven times, it hasn\u2019t gone to the White House until December, three months into the new fiscal year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s defense budget debates on Capitol Hill are expected to be particularly problematic. Conservatives have decried Biden\u2019s plans for a flat or reduced defense budget as potentially dangerous for national security, while the curtailed military spending has been largely backed by progressive Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the House and Senate defense committees have held several budget-related hearings in recent weeks, but the service officials\u2019 testimony on each of their service\u2019s needs are considered critical for lawmakers in piecing together their legislative work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a continuing resolution already likely in a transition year, Reed is \u201cspot on\u201d to focus on confirmation hearings in May and have better informed budget hearings in June, according to Arnold Punaro, a former Senate Armed Services Committee staff director and the chairman of the board of the National Defense Industrial Association. Defense observers should be unfazed by this new turn, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have total confidence in the bipartisan leadership of the defense committees in both houses in that they will get their work done and provide the authorizations and funding for a strong national defense as they have for the last 60 years,\u201d Punaro said. \u201cNo question about that. No one should get concerned about the timing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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