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According to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry, the US House of Representatives would pass defense budget the middle of May.

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Sputnik) — The US House of Representatives will pass a defense budget by mid-May despite current disagreements among Republicans, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry told reporters on Wednesday.

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“We will have it off the floor by the middle of May in the House, and my understanding is the Senate will be shortly after us in their schedule,” Thornberry said on the timeline for passing the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

The House Republican leadership has proposed a base defense budget of $523 billion, which is $38 billion less than the budget requested by US President Barack Obama.

The current House budget under consideration would make up for the funding gap by authorizing approximately $90 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding, according to statements by US House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price.

“There’s a lot of concern among members of this committee about having part of the funding for the Department of Defense contingent upon something, and I think that causes real problems,” Thornberry said of the current Republican proposal.

During a Wednesday US House Armed Services Committee hearing, Thornberry asserted that the Congress will have a defense authorization bill “before December.”

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