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Is the NDAA a ‘victory for Kevin McCarthy’?

Don’t look now, but Congress is on the verge of delivering yet another bipartisan smackdown of President JOE BIDEN's military spending plans.

After weeks of haggling, the House is set to vote later today to pass a compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act that endorses a significantly bigger defense budget than Biden sought and takes a red pen to some of his signature plans.

The NDAA clocks in at $858 billion in total — including $847 billion for the Pentagon and nuclear weapons research — a whopping $45 billion more than Biden requested. That’s similar to the amount the Senate Armed Services Committee approved in its version of...


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