The Hill:
The stopgap spending measure passed by the House on Thursday includes slightly more than $4.6 billion for missile defense programs and repairs to Navy destroyers damaged in collisions this summer.
The extra dollars are likely to placate defense hawks who pushed for a full-year Pentagon funding bill in the measure, a plan that was dropped after the Senate made it clear they wouldn’t support such legislation.
House Republicans on Thursday evening, a day before the deadline to fund the government, narrowly passed the measure to avoid a government shutdown and keep all federal agencies funded through Jan. 19 with a 231-188 vote…
