WASHINGTON — The House is expected to take up legislation this week that would authorize about $900 billion for the military, providing an increase over the White House’s annual budget request.

The bicameral version of the bill released Sunday includes $8 billion more than what the Trump administration had requested and what the House allotted in a version of the bill that it passed earlier this year. The additional funding in the legislation marked a modest but rare divergence for Republican lawmakers from President Donald Trump, after a year of largely ceding authority as he made dramatic cuts to the government.

Both chambers are racing to pass the annual defense policy bill before the end of the year and deliver it to the president’s desk.

One overarching goal of the bill, which auth

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