Republican Rep. Kay Granger is the number one recipient of defense sector donations in the House. (Via Sludge)
Texas Republican Rep. Kay Granger, who co-founded the Joint Strike Fighter Caucus in 2011 to fend off budget cuts to Lockheed Martin’s F-35 weapons system, is the new chair of the committee that doles out hundreds of billions of dollars to fund defense contracts.
With Republicans taking control of the U.S. House, last week Granger took the gavel of the House Committee on Appropriations, which allocates federal funds and takes the lead on supplemental spending bills throughout the year. Granger’s leadership of the committee comes after she was elected its ranking member by Republicans in 2019.
The new Republican House majority has introduced uncertainty to federal budgeting plans this year, unsteadying even military spending, which has been on the rise for the past eight years. In negotiations with his caucus to become House Speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy reportedly made a deal that couldat 2022 levels, which would walk back some $75 billion that was added to the 2023 defense authorization package at the end of last year.
to the Joint Strike Fighter Caucus and previously co-chaired the bipartisan group. The troubled F-35 fighter’s main production facility is an Air Force plant in Fort Worth, part of the North Texas district that Granger has represented since 1997.
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