Senator Reed took to the Senate floor today to urge his Senate colleagues to support his amendment to restore honest accounting and fully fund needed investments in the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) base budget in the Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
The $612 billion FY 2016 NDAA sets the budgetary guidelines and policy framework for defense expenditures. Reed’s amendment sought to create the space for a bipartisan solution to replace harmful, automatically triggered budget cuts so that America maintains a strong military abroad and strong nation at home.
