{"id":2267811,"date":"2024-06-14T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T15:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-annual-defense-bill-with-significant-military-pay-raise\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T15:37:29","slug":"house-passes-annual-defense-bill-with-significant-military-pay-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-annual-defense-bill-with-significant-military-pay-raise\/","title":{"rendered":"House approves defense bill, includes major military salary increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fhouse-passes-annual-defense-bill-with-significant-military-pay-raise%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=2267811&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--><p>The House recently\u200b passed its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hispanic-caucus-takes-aim-at-african-american-veterans-service-on-key-panel\/\" title=\"Hispanic Caucus Takes Aim at African-American Veteran\u2019s Service on Key Panel\">annual defense bill<\/a> \u200cwith a partisan vote of 217-199, advancing\u2063 a $895.2 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2025. This marks a $9 billion increase from the previous fiscal year. The bill includes \u200bcontentious GOP amendments targeting Pentagon policies on issues such as abortion travel, transgender care, diversity, and climate change,\u200d making it \u2064unlikely to pass in its current form in \u200bthe Democratic-led Senate. Key provisions in the House version of the NDAA include\u200c a notable 19.5% pay\u2062 raise for junior enlisted members and a 4.5% increase for other officers, described as the largest in a generation. However, the White House has expressed opposition to \u2064these substantial pay raises citing cost concerns and the pending completion of a military compensation review.\u200d The \u2064Senate\u2062 Armed Services Committee is working on its \u200cversion of the NDAA, which is expected to propose a more modest pay increase of 5.5%\u200d for junior military members.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The House passed its annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"defense\">defense<\/a> bill on Friday, setting the stage for a policy showdown with the Democratic-led Senate over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3028701\/2025-budget-fight-house-passes-first-spending-bill-likely-dead-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>a number of \u201cpoison-pill\u201d <\/a>amendments pushed by GOP lawmakers that have little chance of becoming law under President Joe Biden. <\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers approved their version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-on-defense\/3044949\/ditching-a-60-year-tradition-of-bipartisanship-house-gop-hopes-to-pass-defense-policy-bill-without-democratic-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>National Defense Authorization Act<\/a>, which sets policy for the Pentagon and authorizes $895.2 billion in spending for national defense for the coming fiscal year, roughly $9 billion more than what was approved for fiscal 2024. The bill passed in a 217-199 vote largely along party lines, with only six Democrats joining nearly all Republicans in backing the measure.\u00a0Three Republicans voted against it.<\/p>\n<p>The NDAA typically passes without much fanfare, although the measure hit some snags this year as GOP lawmakers voted to attach a wish list of hard-right priorities aimed at dismantling Pentagon policies on abortion travel, transgender care, diversity, and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, House Democratic leaders urged members to vote against the legislation unless those amendments were removed, likely making the proposal dead on arrival in the Senate. <\/p>\n<p>One of the most significant measures included in this year\u2019s NDAA is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uaw-members-authorize-strike-at-ford-gm-stellantis\/\" title=\"UAW members approve strike at Ford, GM, Stellantis.\">double-digit pay raise<\/a> for junior enlisted members, a policy that has been pushed by lawmakers for several years but has been reduced in previous versions in negotiations between House and Senate leaders. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, we were in great position until the Senate whacked it basically,\u201d Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA), a former Navy pilot and member of the House Appropriations Committee, told the <em>Washington Examiner. <\/em>\u201cAnd frankly, from the House side, we didn\u2019t do a good enough job of protecting it in the NDAA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fiscal 2025 proposal would implement a 19.5% pay raise for junior enlisted members while also including a 4.5% pay raise for other officers. Those increases would be the largest pay raise in a generation, but it\u2019s already facing pushback from the White House as being too costly. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe administration is strongly committed to taking care of our service members and their families, and appreciates the [House Armed Services Committee\u2019s] concern for the needs of the most junior enlisted members, but strongly opposes making a significant, permanent change to the basic pay schedule before the completion of the Fourteenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation,\u201d the White House said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Garcia pushed back on that opposition, calling it \u201cwild\u201d that President Joe Biden would be unwilling to approve the pay raise \u201cduring one of the toughest economic periods [and] hyperinflation that frankly, they\u2019ve caused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is the Senate is, you know, Democrat-led. So, when they see the president make that threat, they also now toe the line on that, and it\u2019s irrational behavior. It shouldn\u2019t be a partisan issue. It should be something that both parties are supportive of, but it should be something that the commander in chief should want,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cI don\u2019t understand the rationale. It\u2019s frankly \u2014 it\u2019s not just offensive. It\u2019s completely irrational.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to finalize its version of the 2025 NDAA, which could be voted on by the full chamber as soon as next month. However, that iteration is likely to include only a 5.5% pay increase for junior military members, setting the stage for a showdown with the lower chamber as they seek to negotiate a compromise. <\/p>\n<p>House passage of the NDAA comes after the GOP unveiled an aggressive schedule to pass its annual spending bills over the summer, hoping to get the budget finalized before the November election and avoid a repeat of the intraparty fallout that marked last year\u2019s appropriations process. The House has so far passed one spending bill, appropriations for\u00a0Military Construction and Veterans Affairs. <\/p>\n<p>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) announced his proposed schedule to GOP lawmakers during a closed-door meeting last month that would complete all 12 appropriations bills in June and July.<\/p>\n<p>The ambitious timeline will also serve as a test for House GOP leadership as it attempts to prove its ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-presses-forward-with-appropriations-bills-as-house-conservatives-make-demands\/\" title=\"Senate moves ahead with appropriations bills despite House conservatives' demands.\">pass government funding bills<\/a> despite an inability to do so last year until six months into fiscal 2024. The appropriations bills are likely to reignite intraparty tensions over controversial policy proposals that plagued House Republicans last year. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The House Appropriations Committee unveiled its proposed funding limits last month, with the overall totals coming in under the top-line agreement that was set during debt ceiling negotiations last year. But that proposal is unlikely to make it far in the Senate, where party leaders on both sides of the aisle have expressed a desire for higher allocations. <\/p>\n<p>Even if the House does manage to pass all 12 of its appropriations bills before its annual August recess, it\u2019s not clear whether the Senate will act with such haste. Senate leaders and the White House could seek to delay the process until after the November election, when it\u2019s clear who will be president in 2025 and which party will be in control of the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House approved its annual defense bill, paving the way for a clash with the Democratic Senate over GOP &#8220;poison-pill&#8221; amendments unlikely to pass under President Biden. 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