Pew Research Center poll<\/a> released in June.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s likely to put pressure on some conservative lawmakers to pump the breaks on the spigot of financial assistance the U.S. is sending overseas.<\/p>\n
Michael O\u2019Hanlon, a senior fellow and director of research for Brookings Foreign Policy, said it\u2019s still too early to predict how the NDAA will play out \u2013 except that a swift agreement is unlikely. It\u2019s likely to take months to resolve differences between the chambers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would be stunned if anything like consensus emerged early in the summer. I\u2019d be surprised if anything like consensus emerged even by Sept. 30,\u201d O\u2019Hanlon said. \u201cThis feels like yet another year of continuing resolutions, piecemeal agreements, wait-and-see approaches, baby steps towards compromise\u2014and perhaps a decent amount of brinkmanship along the way too.\u201d<\/p>\n
McConnell has delivered two speeches in the past month highlighting how the NDAA should be composed to combat China and \u201cimprove our ability to project power into the Asia-Pacific\u201d through deepening cooperation between allies.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity to reform America\u2019s sluggish foreign military sales procedures, promote interoperability, and expand joint exercises and access agreements across the region,\u201d the GOP leader said on the Senate floor. \u201cRemember, threats of sanctions and stern diplomatic warnings didn\u2019t deter Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. Words alone will not deter Chinese aggression in Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the Senate is expected to take up its own version of the NDAA sometime later this month, the House is set to move first, considering dozens of amendments next week.<\/p>\n
Those include everything from restricting diversity programs to prohibiting sending F-16s and long-range missiles to Ukraine to ending marijuana testing for military personnel when they choose to enlist and term-limiting the Capitol\u2019s attending physician.<\/p>\n
Rep. Thomas Massie, the northern Kentucky Republican who typically votes against the annual Pentagon bill, will be a key vote given that McCarthy has only a wafer-thin four-vote margin to achieve passage.<\/p>\n
On the Senate side, Rand Paul has also been a reliable \u201cno\u201d vote on NDAA, having voted against final passage of the sweeping spending bill in both 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n
And in the waning days of former Donald Trump\u2019s administration in 2021, McConnell\u2019s GOP- controlled Senate voted to override the president\u2019s veto of a $741 billion defense bill.<\/p>\n
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