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The compromise legislation comes after weeks of negotiations between the Biden administration and House Republicans, who demanded non-defense spending cuts and several other concessions in order to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a U.S. default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe cut spending year-over-year for the first time in over a decade while fully funding national defense and veterans\u2019 health benefits,\u201d House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement upon introducing the compromise bill Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the agreement grows the defense topline to Biden\u2019s proposed $886 billion, numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2023\/03\/10\/gop-blasts-inadequate-biden-defense-budget-as-it-vows-spending-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Republican defense hawks in Congress have already lambasted that proposal as \u201cinadequate\u201d<\/a> for not keeping pace with inflation. In March, when the budget request was released, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2023\/04\/11\/from-ukraine-to-debt-ceiling-its-a-balancing-act-to-pass-fy24-budget\/\" target=\"_blank\">pushed for a 3% to 5% increase<\/a> over inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaking on Fox News on Sunday after details first emerged, said the deal<b> <\/b>\u201cincreases defense spending below inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Biden defense budget was a joke before, and if we adopt it as Republicans, we will be doing a big disservice to the party of Ronald Reagan,\u201d said Graham. \u201cI like Kevin [McCarthy] a lot, but don\u2019t tell me that the Biden defense budget fully funds the military.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill also authorizes a 1% increase for both defense and non-defense spending in FY25. That would put the FY25 defense spending topline at $895 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Congress does not pass all 12 appropriations bills by the end of December, the debt deal<b> <\/b>mandates a full-year continuing resolution to fund the government with a 1% budget cut that would apply to defense and non-defense spending alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House and Senate are expected to vote on the legislation later this week. The Treasury Department has said it expects to run out of money to pay its bills by June 5. 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