Senate Appropriations Committee leaders have agreed to add $34.5 billion in emergency spending to their fiscal 2025 bills on top of levels agreed to in last year’s debt limit negotiations, sources familiar with the talks said Monday.
Under the pact between Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., and ranking member Susan Collins, R-Maine, defense accounts would receive an extra $21 billion in emergency spending while nondefense programs would get $13.5 billion.
The agreement would pave the way for a nearly $30 billion, or more than 3 percent increase, for the Pentagon and other security-related agencies above the fiscal 2024 enacted levels. Meanwhile nondefense agencies would receive a roughly $21 billion boost, just shy of 3 percent above the final spending packages for this year. That figure could change with various other nondefense “adjustments” once all the bills are drafted.
