Congress passes stopgap funding bill, hampering Pentagon initiatives
November 15, 2023
Bryant Harris and Noah Robertson
Defense News
Congress passes stopgap funding bill, hampering Pentagon initiatives
November 15, 2023
Bryant Harris and Noah Robertson
Defense News
By Bryant Harris and Noah Robertson, Defense News / November 15, 2023
WASHINGTON ― Congress on Wednesday passed a temporary spending bill needed to avoid a government shutdown, funding military construction through Jan.19 and the rest of the Defense Department through Feb. 2.
It’s the second short-term funding bill, or continuing resolution, Congress passed in two months, freezing budgets at the last fiscal year’s level. If lawmakers fail to pass a full defense spending bill, the Pentagon could face a year-long continuing resolution for FY24.
The lack of a full defense spending bill for the first four months of the fiscal year will hamper Pentagon contracting as the Defense Department seeks to accelerate it. Defense officials spent the week warning publicly that programs from shipbuilding to Air Force procurement to the wilted munitions industrial base will be harmed.
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