UPCOMING SENATE SHOWDOWN AFTER NDAA SQUEAKS BY IN THE HOUSE 219-210
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of a sweeping bill setting policy for the Department of Defense on Friday, but the "must-pass" bill's chances of becoming law were uncertain after Republicans added a series of culturally conservative amendments.
The fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, which sets policy for the Pentagon and authorizes $886 billion in spending, was approved 219-210.
US House Passes Fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act.
UPCOMING SENATE DEBATE
House Republicans were able to pass their amendments without Democratic support, but such provisions would die in the Senate, where President Joe Biden's fellow Democrats hold a 51-49 majority. Debate in that chamber is set to begin on Tuesday. The Senate is expected to pass its version of the NDAA later this month, after which the two chambers will negotiate a compromise that would come up for a vote later this year. The NDAA, one of the only major pieces of legislation Congress passes annually, is closely watched by a broad swath of industry and other interests because it determines everything from purchases of ships and aircraft to pay increases for soldiers and how to address geopolitical threats.
Washington — The House on Friday narrowly approved the must-pass defense policy bill, ending uncertainty about its fate after Republicans pushed through a series of conservative policy amendments on abortion, diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and gender transition procedures.
The annual National Defense Authorization Act, which sets policy for the Defense Department, cleared the House in a near-party-line vote, 219-210. Four Republicans voted against the bill, while four Democrats voted for it, support that rescued the defense measure from failure.
The four GOP lawmakers who opposed the bill are: Reps. Eli Crane of Arizona, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Ken Buck of Colorado and Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
The four Democrats who supported the package are: Reps. Jared Golden of Maine, Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico, Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez of Washington and Don Davis of North Carolina.
While the package typically earns wide bipartisan support and has passed Congress each year for more than six decades, this year's proposal became ensnared in politically-charged policy debates dividing Republicans and Democrats.
The broad opposition to the bill from congressional Democrats came after the GOP-led House agreed to attach conservative policy priorities to the bill Thursday. The contested amendments, approved narrowly, led Democrats to accuse their Republican colleagues of using the defense package as a vehicle to push their policy agenda on social issues.
“We are not going to relent, we are not going to back down, we’re not going to give up on the cause that is righteous,” Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, told reporters.Credit...Tom Brenner for The New York Times
The one point of bipartisan consensus on Thursday, it seemed, was widespread opposition to Republican efforts to reduce or eliminate military assistance and weapons shipments for Ukraine.
In a series of lopsided votes, the House rejected proposals by Ms. Greene to bar the Biden administration from sending cluster munitions to Ukraine and to strip a $300 million program to train and equip Ukrainian soldiers that has been part of the defense bill for almost a decade, as well as a proposal by Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida to prohibit Congress from appropriating any more money for Ukraine’s war effort.
The House sidestepped altogether a debate over whether to repeal decades-old authorizations for the use of military force in the Middle East that have been stretched to justify a long string of military actions, after Mr. McCarthy refused to include them and pledged to address them later this year.
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House Republicans turned the historically bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act into a hate-filled vessel for right-wing MAGA extremism.
The hyper-partisan GOP bill undermines our military readiness and hurts America’s national security.
They have no shame.
I just voted against the defense bill because it was hijacked with rightwing garbage about drag shows, book bans, and attacks on women’s freedom. Under kevin mccarthy the inmates are running the asylum.
Today I voted NO on the NDAA.
MAGA Republicans jammed harmful anti-LGBTQ, anti-choice, and anti-diversity amendments into the bill.
It’s clear they would rather push their extreme and reactionary agenda than protect our service members or national security.
The House just passed an NDAA stuffed with conservative social policies.
Almost all Democrats opposed the bill after Republicans added amendments to restrict the Pentagon's abortion travel policy, cut funding for medical care for transgender troops, and ax diversity programs.
Today, I voted against a House GOP bill that endangers the lives of women in the military who need emergency medical care and casts doubts on the effectiveness of vaccines.
Because the Freedom Caucus insisted on using this normally bipartisan bill to test fringe ideas. (1/4)
Our military should be focused on protecting America—not pushing the Left's woke ideology.
House Republicans just passed a National Defense Authorization Act that pays our troops and refocuses the Department of Defense on its core mission: Defense.
House Republicans passed an NDAA amendment that bans gender-affirming care for dependents of service members. It’s an extreme and cruel addition – and far out of step with what Americans believe to be right. Read this important story⬇️
BREAKING: Republicans just passed a bill that doled out more than $800 billion in wasteful Pentagon spending, and attacked LGBTQ+ people, women and people of color serving in our military.
Voted NO.
House Freedom Caucus, far-right bloc, touts defense bill after it was amended to nix Pentagon abortion policy, target transgender veteran health care, nix Pentagon DEI programs and ban “gender ideology” books at DOD schools.
Dems furious with changes; Rs believe they have votes
House passes National Defense Authorization Act 219-210:
Four Republicans voted no: Buck, Biggs, Crane and Massie
Four Democrats voted yes, including Golden, Vasquez and Perez
House Republicans just overwhelmingly voted for an amendment to the National Defense Reauthorization Act to ban funding for access to critical health care for American servicewomen, which passed:
Because the radical right threw a fit, we are now considering extreme measures to turn the bipartisan defense bill into a MAGA pipe dream.
These amendments are offensive & this process is a joke! Speaker McCarthy may be the ringleader, but the clowns have taken over the circus.
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