A CUT ABOVE: The House Appropriations Committee meets Wednesday to consider a more than $1 trillion Pentagon funding bill. Democrats on the influential spending panel are likely to oppose the bill over its record-breaking top line, and they could push to trim the price tag.

Ahead of the meeting, budget restraint-oriented groups are urging appropriators to vote to slash to the top line — or oppose the bill if those efforts fail.

‘Dangerous’ math: In a letter to House appropriators, four groups — Taxpayers for Common Sense, the National Taxpayers Union, the R Street Institute and the Taxpayers Protection Alliance — urged panelists to slash the top line. They contend enacting the bill’s $1.07 trillion base spending “would set a dangerous new baseline that on its own would add trillions to the debt” — even without the separate $350 billion reconciliation proposal.

“This year’s House Appropriations Committee markup will set the stage for the broader floor debates that this Pentagon budget request demands,” they wrote.

“We urge you to seize this opportunity to put the nation on a safer and more fiscally responsible path by supporting amendments to lower the topline, and by voting against advancing the Defense Appropriations Act out of committee if efforts to lower the topline fall short.”