Senate Delivers Epic Veto-Proof Defense Bill to Obama
President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t been sworn into office yet, but that hasn’t stopped the Republican controlled Congress from already getting started on his agenda, most specifically that of rebuilding and strengthening the military.
According to Fox News, the Senate voted 92-7 on Thursday to pass the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, a spending bill of about $611 billion that will fund the military for fiscal year 2017.
The veto-proof bill, which has already passed the House by an extremely wide margin, will increase defense spending over the amount President Barack Obama had requested, halt the draw-down of active-duty Army troops, forestall planned base closings, prohibit the closure of the military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and give troops a long-awaited pay raise.
Stars and Stripes reported that the 2017 NDAA included the largest pay raise for the troops in six years, which could kick in as early as Jan. 1.
That pay raise of 2.1 percent was half a point higher than the 1.6 percent Obama had requested, which was just marginally higher than the 1.3 percent raise troops received in 2016.
The bill also began the process of overhauling the military’s health care system and acquisition processes, as well as blowing apart the arbitrary spending caps put in place by the “sequester” years ago, according to The Daily Caller.
“With today’s overwhelming 92-7 vote in the Senate, the NDAA has now passed the Congress with veto-proof majorities in both houses,” read a joint statement from Sen. John McCain and Rep. Mac Thornberry, heads of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees. “This legislation marks another important step toward reforming our defense enterprise to meet current and future threats.”
“Building on this year’s NDAA, the Senate and House Armed Services Committees will continue to champion the cause of defense reform in the new Congress,” their statement added with an eye toward the next session and the expected agenda of President-elect Trump.
Obama had previously warned that he would veto any defense spending bill that didn’t remain within the confines his budget request had set for the military, but such a move seems highly unlikely given the wide margins by which the spending measure passed both houses of Congress.
This is certainly not something Obama wanted to see as he is about to leave the White House, as it begins the process of reversing his efforts to diminish the U.S. military.
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Oh good, I am amazed that people think spending so much resources on promoting something that is inherently destructive and malicious is a good thing. Epic indeed.
I’m guessing I’m going to get about 4326783 downvotes for saying that.
Oh yeah, let me add a twist on one of Rumsfeld’s statement, I wonder if your military will be capable of defending you from the unknowns, in particular, the unmentioned unknown known, that is something you know to be true but you are in denial about as a result of disbelief?
it should be 125 BILLION LESS.. that’s what they found in WASTE by the DOD in the last audit that the DOD tried desperately to hide from congress!
Let’s remind people a bit about warmongering.
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” —President George W. Bush, Aug. 5, 2004
Is he saying they never stop thinking about new ways to harm your own country and people?
“So?” —Vice President Dick Cheney, responding to an ABC News correspondent who cited a poll showing that most Americans do not believe the Iraq War was worth fighting, March 19, 2008
“So what?” —President Bush, responding to a an ABC News correspondent who pointed out that Al Qaeda wasn’t a threat in Iraq until after the U.S. invaded, Dec. 14, 2008
“I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.” —President Bush, in an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008
“George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.” —Lt. Gen. William Boykin, the former defense undersecretary in charge of hunting down top terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2003
“Freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.” —Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on looting in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, adding “stuff happens,” April 11, 2003
“I am not going to give you a number for it because it’s not my business to do intelligent work.” —Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, asked to estimate the number of Iraqi insurgents while testifying before Congress, Feb. 16, 2005
Unfortunately, some of the people involved with some of that bullshit, has been appointed by Trump.