Republicans passed the National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday, largely keeping their conference together to get it through the House.
The House voted 231-196 to pass the legislation, with four Republicans voting against it: Reps. Tim Burchett, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Anna Paulina Luna and Thomas Massie. Seventeen Democrats voted in support. The massive bill authorizes $848 billion in defense spending for fiscal year 2026.
“We didn’t get any of the amendments and the debates that we wanted; not a single solitary one,” Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking member of the House Armed Services committee, said, according to Politico. “Meanwhile, all manner of different issues that are pure culture war partisan issues were allowed in. I fear that many of those are going to pass.”