{"id":1945588,"date":"2023-06-06T15:58:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-rejects-supplemental-defense-spending-bill\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T16:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:00:47","slug":"mccarthy-rejects-supplemental-defense-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-rejects-supplemental-defense-spending-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy denies extra defense spending bill."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmccarthy-rejects-supplemental-defense-spending-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1945588&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Rejects Supplemental Defense Spending Bill<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0606\/9327d05c-fe07-410f-8463-e7997d470f82\/audio.mp3?length=5296365&#038;duration=441\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhy do you move to a supplemental when we just passed [the debt ceiling bill]? The idea of a supplemental is to go around the agreement we just came through,\u201d said McCarthy. \u201cI think we\u2019ve got to walk through appropriations. I mean, I don\u2019t understand what the process is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is the time to work on appropriations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has dismissed the idea of a supplemental defense spending bill, citing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-praises-passage-of-bipartisan-debt-ceiling-bill\/\" title=\"Biden lauds bipartisan debt ceiling bill passage.\">bipartisan debt ceiling bill<\/a> that was recently signed into law by President Joe Biden. McCarthy believes that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-rejects-supplemental-defense-spending-bill\/\" title=\"McCarthy denies extra defense spending bill.\">debt ceiling bill addressed defense spending<\/a> and that the appropriations process should be followed instead of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer-requests-300-million-for-school-coronavirus-testing\/\" title=\"Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Requests 0 Million for School Coronavirus Testing\">supplemental bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Defense Spending Caps<\/h3>\n<p>The debt ceiling law includes a commitment to spend almost $886.35 billion on defense in fiscal year 2024 and just over $895.21 billion the following fiscal year. When asked whether the top-line <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whats-inside-mccarthys-debt-ceiling-deal-with-biden\/\" title=\"McCarthy and Biden's Debt Ceiling Agreement: What's in it?\">defense spending caps<\/a> will be sufficient to counter America\u2019s adversaries, McCarthy said \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Reforming the Defense Department<\/h3>\n<p>McCarthy believes that the Defense Department needs reform, citing issues such as permitting, the ability to move weapons faster, and the ability to rebuild the manufacturing base by building weapons, especially for selling to allies and others. He also noted that the past five Defense Department audits turned out negatively, expressing concern over the department\u2019s waste, fraud, and abuse.<\/p>\n<h3>Opposition to Supplemental Defense Spending Bill<\/h3>\n<p>Some Republican and Democrat senators have called for a supplemental defense spending bill. However, McCarthy believes that the top lines are \u201cthe most money we\u2019ve ever spent on defense\u201d and that a supplemental bill is unnecessary. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) warned that the debt ceiling bill \u201cposes a mortal risk to our national security by cutting our defense budget,\u201d while Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) remarked that the legislation would make America ill-prepared to deal with threats from abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Despite opposition, McCarthy believes that there is a lot of room for reform in the Defense Department, which could lead to significant savings. He also believes that the top lines are sufficient to counter America\u2019s adversaries and that appropriations should be the focus now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) rejected the notion of a supplementary defense spending bill. He stated that the bipartisan debt ceiling bill, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden on June 3, already addressed defense spending. McCarthy made these remarks to reporters on Capitol Hill on June 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1945589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[3895,3998,4775,11051,3663,3834],"class_list":["post-1945588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-bill","tag-defense","tag-denies","tag-extra","tag-mccarthy","tag-spending"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}