McConnell’s Health Absence Threatens Trump’s Pentagon Budget Push
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Senate Appropriations Chair Mitch McConnell’s three-week hospitalization and uncertain health status threatens to derail Trump’s push for a roughly $350 billion Defense Department boost via a third budget reconciliation bill, complicating the GOP’s path in an already stalled appropriations process ahead of the midterms.
Topics:nation#budget-reconciliation#defense-spending#mitch-mcconnell#pentagon-budget#politics#senate-appropriations
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