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The supplemental ask is unlikely to pick up much support from Democrats, with top House Appropriations Committee Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., pouring cold water on either hiking defense funding through the appropriations process or funding the war: “It’s the biggest increase in American history in a defense bill, and then you cut the non-defense by $13 billion. Give me a break.”
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., the top Senate Armed Services Committee Democrat, said “it’s a significant amount of money, and we have to be careful.”
Still, some Democrats are open to the funding request: “There’s stuff there for farmers and other things there, Ebola, and all that. So we’re looking at it,” said purple-district Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas.
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