The House on Friday passed its version 2024 National Defense Authorization Act in a vote of 219-210, which largely fell along partisan lines due to amendments added by Republicans relating to social policies in the military.
The Republican amendments covered abortion, transgender surgery, and diversity initiatives. Only four Democrats voted in favor of the bill, and four Republicans voted against it. The four Republicans who opposed the NDAA are Reps. Thomas Massie (KY), Eli Crane (AZ), Andy Biggs (AZ), and Ken Buck (CO).
The Senate still needs to pass its version of the NDAA, then the two chambers will negotiate the final version that will go to President Biden’s desk. The Republican amendments packed into the House version will set up a fight between the two chambers as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Democrats will reject them.
The 2024 NDAA is for a record $886 billion, the same amount President Biden requested. The debt ceiling deal reached between House Republicans in the White House did not limit military spending and put no caps on emergency supplemental funds, which is how the US has been spending on the war in Ukraine.
As the House was debating the NDAA, several amendments introduced by Republicans looking to rein in US support for Ukraine were voted down. One amendment sponsored by Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) would have required the Biden administration to develop a strategy for the war in Ukraine. It was rejected in a vote of 129-301, with only Republicans supporting it.
One amendment introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene would have cut $300 million in military aid for Ukraine that’s packed into the NDAA, but it failed in a vote of 89-341. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) put forward an amendment to cut off all military assistance for Ukraine, which failed in a vote of 70-358. Only Republicans supported the two amendments.
Greene sponsored another amendment that would have prohibited the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine, although US cluster bombs have already arrived in the country. The effort failed in a vote of 147-276. It received support from 98 Republicans and 49 Democrats.
Kabuki theater, all for show, the usual characters holding exaggerated poses for the assembled multitude. Wake me up when the air raid sirens start going off. This is not real life. It is only a test. If it had been real life you would have been told where to go and what to do.
IMHO You are correct it is only a vertical short period of time before our proxy war goes south and fails The fools running this country will escalate as the Empire crumbles and everything goes BOOM.
You lost me there Thomas..:)
Agreed. “You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop, the Twilight Zone!”
Not a single antiwar Dem in the House … isn’t that great?
Or republican. Those votes are only for this war.
🙂
I’d settle for ANY war at this point …
Me too. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll take any resistance whether they’re genuinely antiwar or not.
“House Passes $886 Billion National Defense Authorization Act”
Oh SH*T, Putin and China just watched the US dig its own grave
Money that has to be borrowed from China and banks.
New numbers just released show the United States is past the point of no return. While China and Russia make moves to expand the size and scope of BRICS, the U.S. interest payments on its $32 trillion dollar debt will exceed $1 trillion. Economists believe this is the beginning of the end for US dollar dominance.
I hope omnipotent Nuland signs it. Lol
When the Nukes are falling on the USA I wish I could say we did not deserve it…:)
When we have 2 war parties in Congress, it makes no difference what show they put on. Everything always passes with unlimited budget. $886,000,000,000 means nothing to our politicians. Literally enough to eradicate hunger, homelessness, and pay for universal healthcare a few times over, but we CHOOSE to spend it on war.
Those wonderful things for humans don’t stand a chance against the need for power and profit of the ruling class of Capitalists,Imperialist and racist murderers and White Supremacists.
Now why in hell when U just get going do you have to scream “racist murderers” and “White Supremacists”! Stupid! 🙁
Because whether you like it or not that is the political and military history if the US both in domestic as well as Foreign Policy.
That type of national, tribal, activity is hardly the exclusive domain of White, Caucasian Europeans. What other Kool Aide have you drank? If you want to get anything done you need to put aside YOUR racism.
When the time comes be like the raging lion……
The biggest problem is the apathy and ignorance of the population.that is more like the cowardly lion in Wizard of Oz
It is more like the National Offense Authorization Act…!
Yeah, that “defense” crap is really Orwellian.
Until the late 1940’s at least the government had the honesty to call it what it was: “The War Department.”
GMTA
Show vote.
It’s dead in the Senate.
Only some of the ideologically-inspired GOP amendments are concievably “dead” in the Senate. The bulk of the bill, including all of the spending, is very likely to pass.
Uniparty rules. No evidence to the contrary.
1776: Game Over. Time for a new American beginning. By whatever means.
It is notvthe beginning.It is the beginning of the end and all of those idiots voted for it.
You speak truth! 🙂 🙁
219-210
If only the grotesqueness of that $886 billion would have been the reason for those 210 no votes.
Seems like a weird number, $886 Billion. Couldn’t they just round it off to $1 Trillion? I can’t remember complicated numbers any more.
Next year.
It is a lot more then a Trillion when you count the three letter agencies spying on.civilians and taking away our freedoms one by one
The real “defense” budget is much higher. Well over a trillion dollars. The announced figure doesn’t include various “military aid” packages, which are charged to the State Dept. Nor the Energy Dept’s work on nuclear weapons. Nor the entirely of the “intelligence community’s” budget. Nor any of the money needed to pay for past wars (Veteran’s Affairs, etc). Nor does it include ongoing “special” operations. Such as in past wars like Afghanistan, nor the current war in the Ukraine. Nor money that is spent to keep various allies, clients, proxies, stooges, would-be coupsters, terrorists, mugs, pugs, thugs, etc. happy, and on board with US desires and plans.
Your comment is better and much more Inclusive then mine.
Ty.
Which means when it officially hits the Trillion-dollar mark, it will be even more disgusting.
Nothing but pigs.
Actually that would be the NOAA, National Offense Authorization Act.
What a thoroughly corrupt Scheiß Hole the USA has become.