The House passed an $886 billion military spending bill on Friday, with four Democrats joining Republicans. The bill contains several Republican amendments targeting abortion access, gender-affirming care, and climate policies. Progressives criticized the bill for allocating the largest military budget ever, failing to cut wasteful spending, and including amendments that attack women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and climate action. They urged the Senate to remove the “hateful measures” when reconciling the two chambers’ bills. The bill’s fate remains unclear as the Senate must still pass its own version and reconcile differences with the House bill.

  • raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The four Democrats who joined 215 Republicans in voting yes on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) were Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine.), Donald Davis (D-N.C.), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.).

    This is why I never really buy the excuses when individuals like Joe Manchin becomes the scapegoat for the Dems, there is always another Joe Manchin waiting in the wings because establishment democrats are pro-austerity conservatives.

    Always one convenient excuse for another, whether it’s not being able to fulfill their campaign promises or it’s helping pass the GOP agenda.

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      1 year ago

      It’s interesting. They are all young newly elected congress members.

  • katy ✨
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    It’s DOA in the Senate so might as well mitigate damage for Dems in red districts

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    Since Washington seems like a nice place for me to live I decided to look into Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s explanation for her vote in favor of this deplorable National Defense Authorization Act. She writes, “The bill also included my amendment to improve the military’s ability to fix its own equipment.” Voting against human rights in order to get a right to repair seems like an absurd deal for anyone who actually supports human rights to make.

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    All this talk of corpos and their precious quarterly record profits year after year but I feel like the military budget has been doing the exact same for much much longer

    MIC go brrr