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Trump faces hurdles to military build-up

December 17, 2017 The Hill
By: Rebecca Kheel
Related Expert: Katherine Blakeley

The passage of the NDAA shows an “appetite for more defense spending if you don’t have to make any difficult compromises,” said Katherine Blakeley, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. “Republicans are going to have make difficult compromises because the Democrats in the Senate hold all the cards.”