The House moved its first draft of the FY25 defense spending bill, pushing back on President Biden's Israel arms transfer hold and excluding Ukraine aid.
Defense appropriators are resisting intense bipartisan pressure to reverse the Navy's decision not to procure a second Virginia-class submarine for FY25.
The service works over 3.4 million square miles of Exclusive Economic Zones and defends a coastline longer than the border between the U.S. and Mexico.