Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said House Republicans will get a briefing from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon on Tuesday evening as they consider the White House’s request for a $350 billion defense funding boost amid the war in Iran.

The meeting comes as Republicans are finalizing a framework for a third budget reconciliation bill of GOP priorities that can bypass a Democratic filibuster in the Senate. House GOP leaders hope to mark up the bill in the House Budget Committee on Thursday. 

The bill is expected to combine a funding boost for the Pentagon with a grant program to encourage states to adopt voter ID and other restrictions in the President Trump-pushed  Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, and measures to address what Republicans say is fraud in federal programs.

“Secretary Hegseth and his team will go through and outline a lot of this. Much of that is going to be classified for us,” Johnson said in a press conference on Tuesday.

“You heard the president talk about how he wants to effectively double the funding for national defense. Look, we live in dangerous times. We’re fighting communism on our own shores, and we’re fighting evil terrorists and tyrants around the world, and we have to be able to protect our national security,” Johnson said.

The White House’s separate request for a $87 billion defense supplemental includes $67 billion for the Iran war, funds to curtail the ongoing Ebola outbreak, and aid for farmers. 

The proposal contains $1.7 billion for Pentagon readiness; $17.3 billion for operational costs; $1.5 billion for fuel costs; $1.2 billion for administration priorities; $21 billion for munitions; $5.1 billion for cybersecurity and autonomy; $2.4 billion for drones; $800 million for National Guard backing and $12.1 billion for other departments’ “classified” programs.

Senate Democrats poured cold water upon its public release on June 24 and skepticism has remained. 

“People wanted to talk about munitions, and so this is a munitions supplemental, and I really would be really disappointed if my Democrat colleagues say out of hand we’re going to reject the supplemental,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) said Tuesday morning during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing for four senior Pentagon civilian nominees. 

“We didn’t do that when Biden was president, Schumer was majority leader, and it would be really disappointing if you guys did that and if you guys voted against cloture on the NDAA today,” Sullivan said, referring to Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.). 

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said he and his Democratic colleagues are assessing not only the supplemental, but President Trump’s push to get a $1.5 trillion defense budget, an over 40 percent bump from last year. 

“Not all supplementals are exactly the same, and one of the issues that we’re sort of grappling with, and this is no surprise, I suspect, to the witnesses or folks watching, with the supplemental is the supplemental is on top of a presidential budget request that increases the Pentagon’s budget by 40 percent in one year, and so we’re sort of grappling with the 40 percent in one year increase, and then the supplemental on top of it,” Kaine said during the hearing.