{"id":1984906,"date":"2023-07-28T09:23:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T13:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-passes-defense-bill-with-no-block-on-funding-for-abortion-travel-setting-up-battle-with-house\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T09:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T13:24:02","slug":"senate-passes-defense-bill-with-no-block-on-funding-for-abortion-travel-setting-up-battle-with-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-passes-defense-bill-with-no-block-on-funding-for-abortion-travel-setting-up-battle-with-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate passes defense bill without blocking funding for abortion travel, setting up clash with House."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-passes-defense-bill-with-no-block-on-funding-for-abortion-travel-setting-up-battle-with-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1984906&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Senate Passes National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Without Amendment on Pentagon Funding for Abortion Travel<\/h2>\n<p>The Senate passed \u200dits\u200d own version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ndaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Defense Authorization Act<\/a> \u2064 (NDAA)\u2063 on Thursday, setting the stage \u2063for a potential clash with the\u2062 House. The bill, which received bipartisan support, was approved in an 86-11 vote.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s \u200chappening in the Senate is a stark contrast to a bipartisan race to the bottom we saw in the House where \u200cHouse Republicans are pushing partisan legislation that has zero chance of passing,\u201d Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/07\/27\/senate-defense-bill-clash-house-gop\/70478555007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cHouse Republicans should look\u200d to the Senate to see how things get done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The bill faced opposition from a group of Republicans, including\u2062 Senators Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY),\u200c J.D. Vance (R-OH), and\u2062 Mike\u2062 Braun (R-IN). Senator Vance expressed his concerns about the bill, stating, \u201cHowever, I cannot in\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-tuck-female-draft-into-defense-bill\/\" title=\"Democrats Tuck Female Draft Into Defense Bill\">good conscience support<\/a> the broader package, which commits the United States to years of additional military aid for the\u200d war in Ukraine. It\u2019s disappointing to me that these significant priorities that would benefit Ohioans have been bogged down with such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-passes-defense-bill-with-no-block-on-funding-for-abortion-travel-setting-up-battle-with-house\/\" title=\"Senate passes defense bill without blocking funding for abortion travel, setting up clash with House.\">deeply problematic foreign policy\u2063 proposals<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several amendments were proposed during the Senate&#8217;s\u2063 deliberations. An amendment to reinstate soldiers who left or were discharged over\u200d the COVID vaccine was\u2063 unsuccessful, while an amendment \u200bto prohibit the purchase of American farmland by China, \u200dRussia, Iran, and North Korea passed. Additionally, the Senate added a measure to \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senate-moves-to-block-sale-of-oil-from-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-china-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ban sales of oil<\/a> from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve \u200b(SPR) to \u200bthese \u200ccountries.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Rand Paul introduced an \u2064amendment to \u2064clarify Congress&#8217;s final authority on war\u200b declarations, but it was defeated. Paul emphasized \u2063the importance of upholding the Constitution, stating, \u201cArticle 5 of the NATO treaty does not supersede the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>House Republicans Face Criticism \u2064for\u200c Stripping Pentagon&#8217;s Authority on Abortion Travel<\/h3>\n<p>Democrats and\u2063 the media have accused House\u2063 Republicans of politicizing the bill by removing the Pentagon&#8217;s authority to allocate funds for women in the military to travel for abortions in states with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-remember-the-48th-annual-march-for-life\/\" title=\"Americans remember the 48th annual March for Life\">pro-life protections<\/a>. The House version of \u2063the NDAA, which passed along mostly partisan lines, also prohibited military\u200c funding for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elliot-page-matrix-director-lilly-wachowski-back-aclu-lawsuit-protecting-sex-change-operations-for-transgender-children\/\" title=\"Elliot Page, 'Matrix' Director Lilly Wachowski Back ACLU Lawsuit Protecting Sex Change Operations for Transgender Children\">sex change operations<\/a> on military members.\u2063 Both versions of the NDAA include a 5.2% raise for military members.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cUnder\u2062 this \u200bbill \u200cour men and women\u200b in uniform, who make sacrifices for our nation every day, will receive\u200d the biggest pay raise in decades,\u200b radical \u2062programs that are forced on our troops at the expense of readiness \u200care \u2062eliminated, cutting-edge technology that \u2062is essential for the future of this country and will help \u2064deter Communist China \u200cwill receive more investment, and taxpayers will save $40 billion as this bill roots out wasteful\u2062 spending,\u201d \u2063House\u2062 Speaker Kevin\u2062 McCarthy (R-CA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/house-republicans-vote-to-defend-our-nation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a>  after the\u2062 House passed its version.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE\u2064 DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate approved its version of the NDAA, excluding an amendment to cut abortion travel funding for the Pentagon. This sets the stage for a potential clash with the House. The Senate&#8217;s NDAA received broad support from both parties, passing with an 86-11 vote. The situation in the Senate is worth noting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1984907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}