Pelosi Sets Spending Demands for Two-Year Budget Deal

Speaker Nancy Pelosi “said that a two-year budget agreement with the Trump administration must include equal increases in defense and nondefense spending, plus additional money for a program intended to improve healthcare for military veterans,” Reuters reports.

Said Pelosi: “We all agree on the need to address the debt limit, but we also must reach an agreement on spending priorities based upon the principle of parity as soon as possible.”