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House approves $895B defense bill with military pay raise, ban on transgender care for minors
The bill passed the House by a vote of 281-140 and will next move to the Senate, where lawmakers had sought a bigger boost in defense spending than the current measure allows. Lawmakers are ...
Armed Services Committee approves Donald Trump's defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth
Hegseth, 44, is a combat veteran and former Fox News host. The committee voted along party lines to advance his nomination to ...
Republicans eye big defense spending boost in party-line bill
Congressional Republicans, sick of the annual push-pull with Democrats over defense and domestic spending priorities, are ...
This year’s debate over defense spending threatens to disrupt a tradition of bipartisan consensus-building over funding the military
But that record was threatened in the Republican-led House of Representatives on July 14, 2023, when members passed the US$886 billion bill by a 219-210 mostly party-line vote. Reflecting the current ...