House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smtih (D-WA) today sounded like a lawmaker who knows the defense budget is going up, offering arguments against progressives in his own party who seek to cut Pentagon spending, rather than vocalizing his oft-stated opposition to GOP-backed efforts to boost the defense topline. The House Armed Services Committee will convene tomorrow to mark up its version of the fiscal year 2022 defense authorization bill, a legislative debate that typically lasts well into the night and often the next morning. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), the committee's ranking member, has offered an amendment to increase the bill's topline by $25 billion, aligning it with a strongly bipartisan version passed by Senate authorizers last month.
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