After weeks of wrangling, lawmakers finally released a draft of the yearly defense spending bill on Tuesday night as they race to wrap up legislative business by the time Congress breaks for the holidays.
The National Defense Authorization Act breaks down how the Pentagon plans to spend its billions of dollars in appropriations in the year ahead, and it had become the focus of partisan squabbling in recent weeks as lawmakers in both parties sought to use it as a vehicle for wish list items.GOP LEADER KEVIN MCCARTHY AND HOUSE CONSERVATIVES
Members of the House Freedom Caucus had pushed McCarthy in October to stall the NDAA until the legislation repealed the vaccine mandate, reinstated the men and women discharged from the military over refusing the shot, ended “woke” ideological training for troops, and established a special inspector general to oversee Ukraine aid spending.
The NDAA draft contained some language restricting Chinese chips, but lawmakers had watered it down in several ways. But backing Ukraine financially likely still has enough bipartisan support to keep the aid flowing for the foreseeable future.Lloyd Austin’s Pentagon will receive significantly more money than the Biden administration initially asked Congress to provide as a result of the NDAA.
As lawmakers’ discussions about ending the military vaccine mandate grew more serious over the past week, Austin weighed in publicly in defense of the requirement.
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