On December 14, according to Reuters, on the 13th local time, the Senate of the United States Congress passed the huge "National Defense Authorization Act" for fiscal year 2024. According to the report, the next step of the bill will be to be voted on in the House of Representatives.
The bill is reportedly more than 3,100 pages long and authorizes a record $886 billion. The House of Representatives is expected to pass the bill later this week, after which it will be sent to the White House for Biden to sign into law.
Screenshot of the Reuters report.
According to previous reports, on the evening of December 6, local time, the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Congress issued the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024. The bill is a compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act passed earlier in 2023 by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Democratic-controlled Senate.
According to the report, the bill will approve a range of 5 for military personnelThe 2% salary increase also includes the purchase of **, submarines, ammunition and other ** equipment.
But the compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act omits many provisions that address divisive social issues, such as not including the House version of the bill that prevents reimbursements for transgender servicemen from paying for sex reassignment surgeries.
At the same time, Biden said on the 12th that he strongly supports the Senate and House of Representatives to quickly pass the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 by the end of the year.
"The National Defense Authorization Act gives us the critical powers we need to build the military to deter future conflicts, while it also safeguards the service members and their spouses and families who carry out their duties every day," Biden wrote in a statement. ”