‘A terrible risk’: Senate appropriators dim prospects of another defense reconciliation bill

Congress is unlikely to approve a third multi-hundred-billion-dollar budget maneuver to pad the Trump administration's defense spending, Senate Republicans said Tuesday.The occasion was a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense panel, where Air and Space Force leaders were testifying on the 2027 budget proposal. The committee chair, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, noted that some of their services’ top initiatives, such as F-35 modernization, are not part of the Trump a