{"id":58073,"date":"2021-12-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/?guid=ce31185a26e50765b406a0685d64f0dd"},"modified":"2021-12-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:00:00","slug":"us-house-of-representatives-passes-usd-768-bln-defense-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/us-house-of-representatives-passes-usd-768-bln-defense-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"US House of Representatives passes USD 768-bln defense bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON, The US House of Representatives approved Tuesday evening the USD 768-billion defense authorization bill.<\/p>\n
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passed by a vote of 363 to 70, heads next to the Senate for a vote before landing on President Joe Biden?\u2019s desk to be signed into law.<\/p>\n
The bill includes USD 300 million in military aid to the Ukrainian Security Assistance Initiative, USD 7.1 billion for the Indo-Pacific Deterrence Initiative and a provision to create a commission to examine the war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
The bill authorizes USD 25 billion more than the budget requested by Biden.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: Kuwait News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON, The US House of Representatives approved Tuesday evening the USD 768-billion defense authorization bill.The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passed by a vote of 363 to 70, heads next to the Senate for a vote before landing on Pres…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n