Congress Gears Up to Pass $900 Billion Defense Policy Bill

The House is expected to take up legislation this week that would authorize about $900 billion for the military, providing an increase over the White House's annual budget request.
The bicameral version of the bill released on Sunday includes $8 billion more than what the Trump administration had requested and what the House allotted in a version of the bill that it passed earlier this year. The additional funding in the legislation marked a modest but rare divergence for Republican lawmakers from President Trump, after a year of largely ceding authority as he made dramatic cuts to the government...