The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee said Wednesday that any boost to military readiness funding must be offset by cuts, and not by relying on a gridlocked, partisan Congress to pass a new bill just four months after taking office.

The House-passed National Defense Authorization Act takes $18 billion from the war chest and puts it toward base priorities, meaning the overseas contingency operations account will run out of money in April. Supporters of this plan say it’ll be up to the next president to work with Congress to pass a supplemental funding bill that pays for what he or she thinks the United States’ priorities should be overseas.