The House of Representatives on July 21 voted against an amendment from Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Mark Pocan, a Democrat from Wisconsin, to cut defense spending by 10 percent on a vote of 324-93. Many Democrats, 139, voted with 185 Republicans, against the amendment. In the Hudson Valley, only Democrat Paul Tonko voted in favor of cutting the Pentagon's budget, while Democrat Reps. Antonio Delgado and Sean Maloney, and Republican Elise Stefanik, voted to keep the defense budget at $740.5 billion. Next year will be the sixth year in a row that the Pentagon’s budget will be increased by Congress, according to Sludge. “Adjusted for inflation, the $740 billion proposal is well over $100 billion more than expenditures at the high point of the Reagan buildup of the 1980s,” William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, wrote in February.