The Senate advances $ 925 billion

The Senate increased a colossal package to authorize the financing of the Pentagon on Tuesday, marking the first legislation to strike the soil since the legislators returned from the recess of August.

The legislators have advanced the Act respecting the authorization of National Defense (NDAA) for the year 2026 on a largely bipartite vote 84 to 14, setting up the bill of debate before a subsequent vote to pass it from the Senate.

The version of this year’s bill is not as divisor as its predecessor, given the lack of provisions targeting policies “awake” at the Pentagon, which has become a major target for the Republicans when they took power in the House during the second half of the first mandate of former President Joe Biden.

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Instead, the measure focuses on military contract reforms and lasers on the failure of the Pentagon to finish, not to mention, an audit in recent years. It also includes a bump on the remuneration of members of the service, but not as high as in recent years. It also includes an extension of Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative until 2028 and increases the funding authorized to $ 500 million.

However, the measure would authorize approximately 3% additional funding for the Pentagon compared to the NDAA from last year in the middle of the GOP and the White House pressure to reduce government costs.

It also occurs an injection of $ 150 billion in defense expenses adopted in “Big and Beau Bill” by President Donald Trump.

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The president of the Senate Armed Services Committee Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Said the bill has slipped by the committee in July that “the United States operated in the most dangerous threat environment we had to face since the Second World War”.

“The bill that my committee has advanced today is a direct reflection of the gravity of this threat environment, as well as the landscape of rapidly evolving war,” he said. “My colleagues and I prioritize the reindustrialisation and the structural reconstruction of the arsenal of democracy.”

And Senator Jack Reed, the Panel Democrat, also agreed that the United States “is faced with a global security environment like no recent memory.”

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“This legislation invests in the members of the service, the technology and the capacities we need to dissuade our opponents and defend our national interests,” said the Democrat of Rhode Island. “I thank President Wicker and our colleagues on both sides of the aisle for having advanced this bill in order to prioritize the security and security of the American people.”

The Senate and the Chamber also offered competing versions of the bill. The legislators of the upper room jumped their colleagues in the house, where their iteration of the NDAA should be envisaged next week.

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Overall, the version of the Senate of the Legislation would increase nearly $ 925 billion in defense expenditure. This total is divided between the Ministry of Defense with more than $ 878 billion, the Ministry of Energy with more than $ 35 billion with an additional $ 10 billion allocated to “activities related to the defense” outside the bill of the bill.

The version of the bill of the bill has achieved just over $ 848 billion, well below the Senate product, but more in line with the pentagon’s budget demand for the next fiscal year.