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House passes defense bill 363-70; Senate up next
The House passed a new compromise defense policy bill and sent it to the Senate Tuesday, endorsing a $25 billion increase over President Joe Biden’s defense budget request for 2022
By Joe Gould
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Is Trump ‘foolish enough’ to veto the defense bill?
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith said he believes President Donald Trump would veto the bill but warned it “would be a huge political mistake.”
By Joe Gould
Defense bill snagged in Trump’s war on social media protections
President Donald Trump has again threatened to veto this year’s defense policy bill, this time over the tech industry’s prized liability shield.
By Joe Gould
Defense bill in danger over Confederate-named military bases
Despite President Trump's veto threat, Democrats moved to rename military bases named after Confederate officers in an annual defense policy measure that has passed every year since the Kennedy administration.
By Andrew Taylor, The Associated Press
What’s in the emergency defense policy bill?
Here's the skinny on the “skinny” version of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act from Sen. Jim Inhofe.
Merging commissary and exchange systems ‘may pose a threat’ to the stores’ future, advocates tell Congress
The Military Coalition calls for an independent review and hearings on recommendation to consolidate commissaries and exchanges.
By Karen Jowers