Obama threatened… and followed through… will the USAF finally get their chance?
Former SecDef Gates: DoD should just take the money
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he would accept Republican lawmakers’ plan to fully fund defense programs in fiscal 2016 through temporary war accounts because “there’s no alternative right now.”
The longtime military and security bureaucrat savaged lawmakers in his 2014 book “Duty,” complaining that the “partisan abyss in Congress” and “single-minded parochial self-interest of so many members” were a constant distraction to Pentagon operations.
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Obama’s NDAA Veto Threat “Putting Nation’s Security At Risk”
On Wednesday, Senate Armed Forces Committee Chair John McCain (R-AZ) and House Armed Forces Committee Chair Mac Thornberry (R-TX) spoke to reporters following the Senate’s 70-27 vote to pass the fiscal year 2016 Defense Authorization Conference Report. The two addressed President Obama’s threatened veto.
The U.S. Senate voted 70-27 to deliver final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (NDAA), a defense policy bill that makes significant reforms to the U.S. Department of Defense while reinvesting savings in enhancing the readiness and capabilities of our nation’s military, according to a Statement from McCain.
“Today Congress met its most important constitutional duty to provide for the common defense by passing the National Defense Authorization Act. The overwhelming bipartisan majority of the Congress has spoken: 70 members of the Senate voted for the defense authorization bill. 270 members of the House of the Representatives voted for the defense authorization bill. Now the bill will head to the President’s desk.
“With threats to our national security growing around the world, with our troops still in harm’s way in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, and with a clear bipartisan consensus in the United States Congress on the vital importance of this legislation, it’s time for our Commander-in-Chief to sign the defense authorization bill and give our men and women in uniform the authorities and the support they need to defend the nation.”
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