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HASC Member Cooper Says FY ’20 Defense Topline Likely to be $733 Billion

HASC Member Cooper Says FY ’20 Defense Topline Likely to be $733 Billion
Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

As lawmakers mull the Department of Defense’s recently released $750 billion proposed budget for fiscal year 2020, the leader of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) Strategic Forces subcommittee believes that the House will eventually settle on a $733 billion topline. “The number I am hearing for defense is $733 billion,” Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) said March 20 at a national security space conference at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. While that would be lower than…

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