House appropriators plan to consider a proposed $658.1 billion Pentagon spending bill for 2018 made public Sunday, which kicks off a week packed with defense policy and appropriations action on Capitol Hill. The 160-page proposal, whose total includes $584.2 billion in base funding and $73.9 billion in budget-cap exempt wartime funding, heads to a closed markup session on Monday night.
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House Panel Takes Up $658B Defense Spending Bill
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21: Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) questions OMB Director Mick Mulvaney about his budget during a Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee hearing on the budget for the Office of Management and Budget the House Committee on Capitol Hill on June 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Astrid Riecken/Getty Images)
