{"id":35795,"date":"2024-12-11T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35795"},"modified":"2024-12-11T21:17:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T03:17:20","slug":"house-passes-884-billion-defense-spending-bill-setting-up-senate-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35795","title":{"rendered":"House passes $884 billion defense spending bill, setting up Senate fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">124 Democrats and 16 Republicans opposed the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The House of Representatives on Wednesday approach an $884 billion defense spending package that included contentious social provisions barring the military healthcare provider from covering transgender treatments for the children of servicemembers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The National Defense Authorization Act&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2024\/12\/house-passes-844b-ndaa-despite-transgender-care-ban-controversy\/\"><u>passed with 281 yeas and 140 nays<\/u><\/a>, according to Breaking Defense. 124 Democrats and 16 Republicans opposed the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The NDAA now heads to the Senate, where it is expected to face a close vote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ahead of the bill&#8217;s passage, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries indicated that the lower chamber&#8217;s party leadership would not pressure its members of Congress to back the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe\u2019re not whipping on the National Defense Authorization Act. It\u2019s a member-to-member, case-by-case analysis in terms of people making decisions as to what is the right thing to do,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5034885-jeffries-democrats-ndaa\/\"><u>Jeffries said<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/congress\/house-passes-884-billion-defense-spending-bill-setting-senate-fight\">justthenews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>124 Democrats and 16 Republicans opposed the bill. The House of Representatives on Wednesday approach an $884 billion defense spending package that included contentious social provisions barring the military healthcare provider from covering transgender treatments for the children of servicemembers. The National Defense Authorization Act&nbsp;passed with 281 yeas and 140 nays, according to Breaking Defense. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31588,21502,2066,6741],"class_list":["post-35795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-defense-spending-bill","tag-house","tag-senate","tag-struggle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35797,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35795\/revisions\/35797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}