In a 351-66 vote, the House of Representatives has passed their version of the 2019 military spending bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. The NDAA intends to spend $717 billion in the next fiscal year on the military, wars, and nuclear arms.
This is another substantial increase in military spending, broadly supported within both parties. Only 7 Republicans voted against the bill, while Democrats were a bit more split on the matter. Either way, amendments intended to limit nuclear weapons spending or the like were roundly defeated.
One amendment that did manage to make its way into the NDAA was from Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Barbara Lee (D-CA), which demands the Department of Defense investigate if US allies in Yemen were torturing detainees.
The UN had already confirmed that UAE forces were responsible for acts of torture in Yemen, and the investigation is intended to find out if US troops in the country have, in violation of US law, been participating in Emirati torture sessions.
The NDAA bill passed today still has to be reconciled with the Senate version, which was passed by committee in a closed session. Once the two are reconciled, there will be final votes, though there appears so far to be little momentum to resist the ever growing expenses.
Two billion dollars a day. That’s a lot foreign entanglements (and corporate welfare). This is the real Deep State. They perpetuate war to keep a handful of manufacturers and their wasteful supply chains alive. We fear and obey.
If this is the product of the “Deep State” then president Trump should refuse to sign the bill.
The Deep State aka Shadow Government has one and only one purpose: survival of the Military Industrial Matrix.
If only I had 1% of that cash, I would buy 1 large Home, 1 large boat and 1 commercial apartment for rent and 1 large trash can.
For a country with the level of debt that the USA has you would think they might be a little more conservative. The last tax break legislation added 1 Trillion to national debt, that costs every tax payer $12,000.00 how can they repay that????
They said the pentagon had 21 trillion it could not account for . With the government we have had for the last 20 years up to today . There is only one way this country is going .
Didn’t Rep Keith Ellison get an amendment passed that yanks the decision to go to war with Iran away from the executive?
Saw nothing about this in the MSM, but you are so right, by a unanimous vote, no less. It remains to be seen how our Zionist-controlled Senate deals with this amendment. One can always hope… and pray.