Here’s a look at the major differences in the House and Senate bills, and the debates ahead.
The benefit in question provides reimbursement of travels costs to get access to otherwise noncovered reproductive health care services.
Abortion, diversity training and COVID prevention are again hot-button issues in the military appropriations plan for next year.
A plan to boost young troops' pay by an extra 15% next year will cost more than $24 billion over the next five years, officials said.
The annual defense appropriations bill would give all troops a 4.5% pay raise in 2025, with some enlisted troops getting a boost of nearly 20%.
The White House is opposed to a Republican-backed VA budget plan that is expected to be advanced this week.
Defense and veterans hearings for the week of June 3, 2024.
Sen. Wicker's plan lays out an additional $55 billion above FY25 defense spending caps.
In addition to the enlisted pay raise, the bill pushes back against F-35 procurement as lawmakers bash Lockheed Martin over the troubled program.
VA would see a 10% boost in funding under a plan advanced by Republican appropriators on Tuesday, but Democrats oppose other parts of the bill.
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