US Senate passes defence policy bill with 5.2% pay raise for troops, biggest boost in 20 years
Thursday, 14 December 2023 The US Senate passed a defence policy bill on Wednesday that authorises the biggest pay raise for troops in more than two decades, but also leaves behind many of the policy priorities that social conservatives were clamouring for, making for an unusually divisive debate over what is traditionally a strongly bipartisan effort. Lawmakers have been negotiating a final bill for months after each chamber passed strikingly different versions in July. Some of the priorities championed by social conservatives were a no-go for Democrats, so negotiators dropped them from the final product to get it over the finish line.
House Approves, $866 Billion , Military Spending Bill.
On December 14, over two-thirds of the United States House
of Representatives voted for a defense policy bill that is
now headed to the White House to be signed into law.
NBC reports that the bill includes a record
$866 billion in annual...
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agreement on the future of aid..
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Thursday, 14 December 2023
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