NO NDAA BOOST: Ten advocacy organizations are urging leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services panels to drop a proposal to boost the defense budget topline by $32 billion more than the Trump administration requested from their final defense policy bill.

In a letter Wednesday to the four committee chairs and ranking members, the groups also urged NDAA negotiators to adopt several provisions aimed at reducing waste and beefing up oversight of the budget and weapons programs. The missive was co-led by Taxpayers for Common Sense, Public Citizen, and National Taxpayers Union.

What they said: The groups derided the $32 billion boost supported by the Senate as “fiscally ill-advised and strategically counterproductive.”

“Our organizations differ on the appropriate size and scope of the federal government, but we all agree that the Pentagon budget is larger than it needs to be to defend the nation,” they wrote.