The Senate has passed a defense policy bill that puts aside most of the Republican culture war demands, setting the stage for a possible procedural fly to receive President Donald Trump’s signature.
The 85-7 vote held Thursday was on the National Defense Authorization Act, 2021, a nearly $740 billion financial year congressional must-pass tradition for over six decades.
The NDAA withstood the rusted exchanges between lawmakers from both parties over the years, and it is equally being seen as a relic of bipartisanship in an optionally-bitter chamber.
Senate majority chief Mitch McConnell, on the event of the vote, expressed that for nearly forty years’, defense authorization bills have sailed through the Senate in bipartisan fashion. Also, he said consistent with custom, his party and Democrats have set aside many of their disagreements and that it was the right thing to do while so many American lives are facing threats abroad.
He further said the bill funds a serious military build-up, pandemic preparedness aid for qualified prisons, offers additional support for the National Guards, funds the Pentagon’s base closure and realignment commission and provides for the creation of a human resources aviation cadet program.
In support of McConnell’s argument, Senate Democratic Chief Charles Schumer has also seen the passage of the bill as giving others another chance to recognize bipartisanship. He expressed the NDAA’s passage as an important task and a step forward in the Senate’ collective work.
Under the defense policy bill signed by the president, it repeals the 2001 Authorization of Use of Military Force, which has been used as an alternative for decades as the legal justification for the US’s numerous military struggles and counter-terrorism operations. It further bans the transfer and utilization of the F-35 stealth fighter jet and other military equipment to Turkey to discipline the past’s unprovoked military attack on the Kurds.
This bill, which has no room for most of Republicans’ culture war demands, rightfully reauthorizes Pentagon programs that expire at the end of the financial year, and sets the traction for the evasion of sequestration limits currently in place on domestic and military spending. Furthermore, it will compel the Pentagon to report to the Congress the gains of direct and indirect investments made in the aforementioned countries assuming the benefits of investments in the five important areas.
McConnell and Schumer have both agreed that with the passage of the NDAA, the Senate has accomplished a great task, and that it is time that the House and the President show that same commitment to compromise to finish the year on a sound financial footing.
The Senate has passed a defense policy bill that puts aside most of the Republican culture war demands, setting the stage for a possible procedural fly to receive President Donald Trump’s signature.
The 85-7 vote held Thursday was on the National Defense Authorization Act, 2021, a nearly $740 billion financial year congressional must-pass tradition for over six decades.
The NDAA withstood the rusted exchanges between lawmakers from both parties over the years, and it is equally being seen as a relic of bipartisanship in an optionally-bitter chamber.
Senate majority chief Mitch McConnell, on the event of the vote, expressed that for nearly forty years’, defense authorization bills have sailed through the Senate in bipartisan fashion. Also, he said consistent with custom, his party and Democrats have set aside many of their disagreements and that it was the right thing to do while so many American lives are facing threats abroad.
He further said the bill funds a serious military build-up, pandemic preparedness aid for qualified prisons, offers additional support for the National Guards, funds the Pentagon’s base closure and realignment commission and provides for the creation of a human resources aviation cadet program.
In support of McConnell’s argument, Senate Democratic Chief Charles Schumer has also seen the passage of the bill as giving others another chance to recognize bipartisanship. He expressed the NDAA’s passage as an important task and a step forward in the Senate’ collective work.
Under the defense policy bill signed by the president, it repeals the 2001 Authorization of Use of Military Force, which has been used as an alternative for decades as the legal justification for the US’s numerous military struggles and counter-terrorism operations. It further bans the transfer and utilization of the F-35 stealth fighter jet and other military equipment to Turkey to discipline the past’s unprovoked military attack on the Kurds.
This bill, which has no room for most of Republicans’ culture war demands, rightfully reauthorizes Pentagon programs that expire at the end of the financial year, and sets the traction for the evasion of sequestration limits currently in place on domestic and military spending. Furthermore, it will compel the Pentagon to report to the Congress the gains of direct and indirect investments made in the aforementioned countries assuming the benefits of investments in the five important areas.
McConnell and Schumer have both agreed that with the passage of the NDAA, the Senate has accomplished a great task, and that it is time that the House and the President show that same commitment to compromise to finish the year on a sound financial footing.
