{"id":53510,"date":"2018-01-22T21:03:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T21:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/01\/22\/spending-patch-deal-heralds-defense-hike-hawks-predict\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:51:30","slug":"spending-patch-deal-heralds-defense-hike-hawks-predict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2018\/01\/22\/spending-patch-deal-heralds-defense-hike-hawks-predict\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending patch deal signals defense hike, hawks predict"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=f903e9b9-8223-4a91-b50a-90845e3ac6bf\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-f903e9b9-8223-4a91-b50a-90845e3ac6bf.png\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This Week on Capitol Hill: The Senate has reached a deal to reopen the government temporarily &#8211; can they keep themselves and the military funded longer?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Pro-defense lawmakers read progress on ending a three-day-old government shutdown as momentum towards a long-term Pentagon budget boost, but there\u2019s still a ways to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senate Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said Monday that Congress was \u201ca step closer\u201d to a bipartisan budget agreement. Because Democrats chafed at Republican criticism the shutdown was harming the military, they would be, \u201ca little easier to talk to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, a senior appropriator, said Republicans and Democrats are \u201cvery close,\u201d on the budget top-lines and \u201ccould have been done weeks ago, except for their deadlock over immigration reforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. Mike Rounds, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, said the coming caps deal holds a substantial defense boost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to have that, it\u2019s got to be upped,\u201d said Rounds, R-S.D. \u201cI\u2019ve seen some numbers, and I was pleased with the numbers I saw, but they were only informational.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four months into fiscal 2018, the Defense Department and rest of government are awaiting spending numbers, ensnared by the impasse over extending protections for young immigrants. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/01\/22\/senate-reaches-deal-to-end-government-shutdown\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Monday\u2019s deal on a short-term spending patch<\/a> to Feb. 8 at least appears to have generated some inter-party goodwill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a win for bipartisanship,\u201d tweeted the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity\u2019s top Democrat, Sen. Bill Nelson, of Florida. \u201cFor days, I\u2019ve been working with a group of moderate senators to end the shutdown &amp; get a commitment to take up other bills. As a result, there is now a path forward to help Dreamers, fund the military and provide disaster assistance to Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawmakers must continue making progress on a program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as young children, dubbed \u201cDreamers\u201d for a 2017 bill that would offer them a path to citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marathon bipartisan dealmaking and cross-aisle discussions culminated with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announcing Monday, \u201cit would be my intention to take up legislation here in the Senate that would address DACA, border security, and related issues as well as disaster relief, defense funding, health care, and other important matters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question of the day for Democrats is whether they trust McConnell. One Democrat, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, of Minnesota, wouldn\u2019t say. But she touted the \u201cstrong camaraderie of the Senate, which could be helpful with the long-term budget bill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, lawmakers seemed no closer Monday to a deal on immigration, which raises the specter of another shutdown in a few weeks time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the budget, lawmakers must reach a deal to ease statutory caps that will get at least 60 votes in the Senate. Senate Democrats have been insisting any defense increase be matched on the non-defense side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It could take lawmakers as many as three weeks to write appropriations bills once they reach a deal. That means Congress will likely have to pass another spending patch on Feb. 8 to buy more time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think the government should be reopened, but if this doesn\u2019t address the underlying issue \u2014 spending caps \u2014 for this two-year period of time, what does Feb. 9 hold that [the last funding deadline] didn\u2019t hold?\u201d said Rep. 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