House Republican introduces amendment to strike $6 billion of ‘inflation’ spending from military bill – By Houston Keene (FOX Business) / July 11, 2022
Golden’s amendment would also boost shipyard infrastructure and build US’ third DDG-51 destroyer
The House is poised to push forward on this year’s $840 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual bill that funds the military and would give troops a pay raise.
Nestled within the bill, however, is a $37 billion amendment from Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, that includes over $6 billion in spending to address military “inflation” costs, including fuel.
The billions in inflationary spending have fiscal conservative leaders in the lower chamber taking action to remove it from Golden’s amendment, and Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert is introducing his own amendment to do just that.
“As inflation devastates families and communities across the country, House Democrats’ solution is to spend $6 billion to adjust for higher costs that their reckless spending contributed to,” Schweikert told FOX Business in a Monday statement.
