The House Armed Services Committee on June 22 rejected a proposed amendment within the proposed U.S. defense budget calling for a $500 million boost in a fund that allows the Pentagon and Biden administration to dispatch assistance to Ukraine without Congressional approval.
The measure was among 800 amendments approved by the committee in moving the proposed $874.2 billion Fiscal Year National Defense Authorization Act (FY24 NDAA) to the House floor for full chamber adoption during a marathon hearing that began June 21 and ended early June 22.
More than two dozen of approximately 50 amendments debated by the 59-member committee, led by 31 Republicans, addressed critical race theory (CRT), diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, and remedies for service members discharged for defying vaccine mandates….