* The NDAA will include a short-term extension of the FBI spy tool until April
* It also includes an amendment by Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, that will prohibit Pentagon from using taxpayer dollars to fund Wuhan lab virus experiments
* The massive package will now go to the House for final passage this week
The Senate passed the massive $886 billion annual defense authorization bill that includes a pay raise for U.S. troops and a short-term extension of the FBI's controversial surveillance tool.
The vote was 87-13 and includes a 5.2 percent pay raise for U.S. troops and require the Pentagon to inform service members who were fired for not receiving the COVID-19 vaccine that they can be reinstated.
It also contains $300 million in additional authorized funds for Ukraine in fiscal year 2024 - through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative - and $11.5 billion to deter the rising threat from China.
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WNU Editor: The House has just approved the Senate bill .... House passes defense policy bill, a rebuke of GOP’s far-right fringe (Boston Globe). More here .... House sends defense bill to Biden, despite conservative anger over spy powers, culture wars (Politico), and here .... House passes massive $886 BILLION defense bill despite Republican turmoil over inclusion of short-term extension of FBI spy tool: Lawmakers flee D.C. for holidays as Senate is still negotiating border security and Ukraine and Israel aid (Daily Mail).
U.S. Senate Passes $886 Billion Annual Defense Authorization Bill
Here’s what’s in the $886 billion defense bill -- CNN
Congress passes $886 billion defense policy bill, Biden to sign into law -- Reuters
US Lawmakers Pass Sweeping $886 Billion Defense Spending Bill -- VOA
Senate passes $886 billion defense spending bill with pay raises for troops, Ukraine aid -- USA Today
US Senate passes $886-billion draft defense budget for 2024 -- TASS
9 comments:
That sum makes no sense. With that kind of money every American should have free healthcare....
Awesome, America can use this money to starve and murder many more women and kids in Gaza..... shining city on the hill and all that.
8:01,
Just another gays for Palestine muppet. Good Boi.
Toodles.
We shrimply can't afford healthcare. We need to send money to downtrodden ol' Israel so they can have free healthcare.
US taxpayers again got fucked.
Bunch of leeches.
Putins wet dream
Maybe if putin wasn't hell bent on invading sovereign nations they could save 100 billion
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yes hell bent...
Went into Georgia, stopped conflict pulled out.
Problem in Moldova .. solved by peace keepers and negotiation.
Azerbaijan, stopped conflict pulled troops out.
Yes thats right numb skull, all those countries were taken over and never freed from Russian tyranny.
Take that blob bong away from your face and start breathing some clean air.
What a joke
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