BREAKING: Senate Delivers Epic Veto-Proof Defense Bill to Obama
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.
“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.
http://conservativetribune.com/senate-veto-proof-order-obama/?utm_source=rightalerts.com&utm_medium=referral
2 comments:
All bullshit come on already , we must define the us government has no lawful authority to do ANYTHING , IT IS ALL color of law and has NO LAWFUL AUTHORITY WHAT SO EVER .........We as the warriors of AMERICA must expand this FACT , LOUD AND CLEAR , AND DEMAND LAWFUL CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT AS STATED IN WE THE PEOPLES DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION ,We as the warriors of America have got to educate the brainwashed public at every opportunity ! With GOD and divine authority...........and NOT the god of the jew zionists...jehovah lucifer satan..........
This article conveniently leaves out that the NDAA gives the military authority seize and hold any American citizen or otherwise without access to the courts and without habeas corpus relief for as long as they deem necessary (for life). I suspect this is what they really want passed before Trump takes office. Otherwise, why not wait until he is in and they have a sure thing?
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