Just 11 senators, including Bernie Sanders, voted against final passage of the bill authorizing $886 billion in military spending for the coming fiscal year.
, one of the few senators to both support Sanders’ amendment and vote against the NDAA, said in a statement that “the Senate voted to pad the Pentagon with a cushy, near trillion-dollar spending package to the tune of $886 billion — a ridiculous dollar figure that the military does not need.”
“The American people have repeatedly heard from Republicans that we need to cut government spending — for education, for healthcare, for food assistance — and now they are enthusiastically throwing every nickel and dime they can find between the couch cushions to their defense contractor friends,” Markey added. “It’s shameful.”
The Senate and House will now begin the process of reconciling the differences between their respective versions of the NDAA. Earlier this month, the Republican-controlled House — with the support of four Democrats —an NDAA loaded with right-wing amendments that would roll back abortion access and gender-affirming care for servicemembers.
But what the two chambers’ bills have in common is the $886 billion topline, which is in step with President Joe Biden’s for fiscal year 2024 and a $28 billion increase over the military spending level authorized for the current fiscal year.
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