IT BEGINS WITH A THUD: Something other than jostling over the FAA bill will be happening today, MT readers. House appropriators will mark up their fiscal 2018 spending bill for DOT Tuesday night, which means the legislation should be released tonight around 7 p.m.
(House spending bills typically come out 24 hours before the subcommittee moves them). THUD is one of a handful of bills left to duke it out over $311 billion remaining for discretionary spending, as our friends (including MT alum Jennifer Scholtes) over at Pro’s Budget and Appropriations Brief report. That’s compared to the more than $346 billion those bills allocated for fiscal 2017.
