{"id":53300,"date":"2015-05-05T18:58:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T18:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2015\/05\/05\/democrats-turn-up-heat-on-spending-caps\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:57:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:57:02","slug":"democrats-turn-up-heat-on-spending-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2015\/05\/05\/democrats-turn-up-heat-on-spending-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Turn Up Heat on Spending Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Democrats are turning up the heat on Republicans to agree on a fiscal package that would raise defense and domestic spending caps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate later Tuesday or on Wednesday is expected to approve a massive GOP-crafted 2016 federal budget blueprint that includes an additional $38 billion for a Pentagon account used primarily to fund America&#8217;s armed conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jack Reed, D-R.I., told reporters Tuesday he thinks Republicans should begin talks with his party about a cap-raising deal akin to a fiscal bill from late 2012 crafted by then-House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and then-Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That bill provided two years of relief from spending caps for defense and domestic programs. A Ryan-Murray II bill would do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/budget-policy\/budget\" style=\"color: #1990e5; background-color: #ffffff;\"><b>Complete coverage of the 2016 budget<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats and some Republicans oppose the compromise House-Senate budget plan&#8217;s $89 billion overseas contingency operations (OCO) account. Both oppose using the war fund to pay for things that otherwise would be financed through the yearly defense budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conservative Republicans would prefer the funding to be offset by cuts elsewhere in the budget; Democrats want more domestic spending. 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Van Hollen, a 2016 Senate candidate, said in a recent statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Only then will we be able to provide the necessary resources for our national security needs,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and to ensure we keep the nation&#8217;s commitments to education, research, infrastructure, and other crucial drivers of economic prosperity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate Democratic leader, called the GOP budget plan &#8220;unfair&#8221; and &#8220;unbalanced,&#8221; adding &#8220;some said it&#8217;s immoral.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky called his party&#8217;s pending plan &#8220;balanced,&#8221; saying it reflects the desires of many groups \u2014 including defense hawks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;No budget will ever be perfect, but this is a budget that sensibly addresses the concerns of many different members,&#8221; McConnell said. &#8220;It reflects honest compromise from many different members with many different priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It includes additional resources and flexibility for national defense,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It reduces spending.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i><span style=\"color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;\">Email: <\/span><span style=\"color: #1990e5;\"><a href=\"mailto:jbennett@defensenews.com\" style=\"color: #1990e5;\">jbennett@defensenews.com<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; background-color: #ffffff;\">Twitter: <\/span><span style=\"color: #5b9bd5;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BennettJohnT\" style=\"color: #1990e5;\">@bennettjohnt<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are turning up the heat on Republicans to agree on a fiscal package that would raise defense and domestic spending caps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":114108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[8,33,19],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1090],"class_list":["post-53300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress","category-home","category-pentagon"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"QKN4V4VSUZC2LPWMZUJT72SG54","arc_canonical_url":"\/congress\/2015\/05\/05\/democrats-turn-up-heat-on-spending-caps\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Democrats Turn Up Heat on Spending Caps - Defense News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Democrats are turning up the heat on Republicans to agree on a fiscal package that would raise defense and domestic spending caps.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Democrats Turn Up Heat on Spending Caps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Democrats are turning up the heat on Republicans to agree on a fiscal package that would raise defense and domestic spending caps.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2015\/05\/05\/democrats-turn-up-heat-on-spending-caps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Defense News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-05-05T18:58:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-07T23:57:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John T. 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