{"id":46506,"date":"2022-06-15T17:11:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/06\/15\/defense-spending-plan-for-next-year-will-see-a-significant-hike-lawmakers-say\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:56:59","slug":"defense-spending-plan-for-next-year-will-see-a-significant-hike-lawmakers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2022\/06\/15\/defense-spending-plan-for-next-year-will-see-a-significant-hike-lawmakers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense spending plan for next year will see a significant hike, lawmakers say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/06\/14\/house-democrats-rebuke-calls-to-raise-spending-in-defense-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">House appropriators<\/a> backed the White House\u2019s defense funding plan for fiscal 2023, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said he expects spending totals to be increased in coming days in response to rising inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ll see by how much, but it\u2019s not going to be an insignificant amount,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/pay-benefits\/mil-money\/2021\/04\/13\/personnel-spending-cuts-wont-help-military-readiness-key-lawmaker-warns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Adam Smith<\/a>, D-Wash., in a press event Wednesday morning. \u201cWe\u2019re going to wind up with an increased number.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, House Democrats unveiled their $762 billion defense spending plan for fiscal 2023. An appropriations subcommittee approved the figure in a vote Wednesday, and the full committee is expected to vote on the plan next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The numbers are in line with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/05\/01\/pentagon-budget-aims-to-shrink-the-military-by-thousands\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Joe Biden\u2019s <\/a>plans for a roughly 4% increase in defense spending next fiscal year, although the specific figures do not match because of accounting differences between Congress and the White House.<\/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\/2022\/06\/14\/house-democrats-rebuke-calls-to-raise-spending-in-defense-bill\/\" 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\/AP22131615937962.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\">House Democrats rebuke calls to raise spending in defense bill<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">House Democrats sided with the Biden administration by allocating $762 billion in the first draft of their fiscal 2023 defense spending bill the Appropriations Committee released Tuesday.<\/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\">Smith\u2019s committee is expected to mark up its draft of the annual defense authorization bill next week, with the president\u2019s budget as a baseline. But numerous Republicans \u2014 and several centrist Democrats \u2014 have pushed for a bigger boost, arguing that inflation and national security concerns demand more spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House Armed Services Committee chairman said he sees some of those concerns as insincere, since Republicans are not pushing for big plus-ups to counter inflation for non-defense spending accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he also acknowledged that an amendment to increase overall military spending during next week\u2019s authorization mark-up is all but certain to be introduced and likely to succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt had been my hope that the appropriators could potentially get an overall agreement on this [before authorization debate began] because the discretionary budget is all intertwined,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou can\u2019t really talk about what the ultimate defense number is going to be without also talking about what the Veterans Affairs number is going to be, and what the non-defense numbers are gonna be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rep. Rob Wittman, the top Republican on the HASC seapower and projection forces subcommittee, told Defense News on Tuesday that House and Senate authorizers and appropriators were circling around a topline increase of $35 billion to $45 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wittman said the talks were bipartisan and likely to succeed in coming to an agreement on higher spending levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From there, he said, it would be a debate over what that money would do \u2014 and he suggested the committees might be interested in buying back some of the ships proposed for decommissioning because the U.S. Navy can\u2019t afford to operate and maintain them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have put some ships back in\u201d through the HASC seapower subcommittee mark, he said, but once a new spending level is agreed upon, \u201ca lot of those dollars will go towards building naval capability, which is absolutely critical. So I\u2019m cautiously optimistic about that.\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\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/06\/14\/46-pay-raise-for-troops-gets-support-across-capitol-hill\/\" 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=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP_16305480352772.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\">4.6% pay raise for troops gets support across Capitol Hill<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Lawmakers still could push the raise higher during debate in coming weeks.<\/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\">Smith did not say he opposes a top line increase, but said lawmakers need to \u201cfocus on where we are spending that money\u201d rather than simply increasing the spending topline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are all kinds of concerns about inflation. So we come in and say we got a plus-up in the defense budget to buy more F-35s. What does that have to do with inflation? That\u2019s just buying stuff. So we\u2019re going to need to sort that out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to unveil its recommendations on total defense spending later this week. The House Armed Services Committee authorization bill markup is scheduled for June 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full House Appropriations Committee is also expected to vote on the defense spending totals June 22. The Senate Appropriations Committee has not released any public plans for spending targets yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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