The bill passed the House by a vote of 281-140 and will next move to the Senate, where lawmakers had sought a bigger boost in defense spending than the current measure allows. Lawmakers are ...

the House approved the 1,800 page national security legislation to authorize funding for the Defense Department for fiscal year 2025. While the majority of Democrats opposed the bill, 81 joined ...

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the annual defense bill, allocating nearly $900 billion with substantial funding earmarked for Israel-related initiatives, JNS reported.

Congressional Republicans, sick of the annual push-pull with Democrats over defense and domestic spending priorities, are ...

In a 85 to 14 vote, the Senate approved the legislation, which the House passed last ... authorize funding for the Defense Department for fiscal year 2025. But the bill includes a handful of ...

is one of the few major bills that has cleared Congress each year for more than six decades. And it’s not the first time the White House has approved major defense legislation despite deep ...

But that record was threatened in the Republican-led House of Representatives on July 14, 2023, when members passed the US$886 billion bill by a 219-210 mostly party-line vote. Reflecting the current ...

Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, said a bill empowering local authorities to take ...

The House will vote on the matter in less than two weeks. Lawmakers also approved a big Social Security bill in the Senate, legislation that divided the GOP. The week’s turmoil on Capitol Hill ...

The Senate approved the annual defense bill Wednesday that moves National ... The same amendment received support from the U.S. House, but was stripped by the Senate. But the fight over the ...

The sweeping defense bill also includes pay raises for U.S ... Balint had similar comments in a statement after the House approved the legislation, saying it “amounted to a blank check to ...