Posted on 07/06/2020 1:28:51 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The House Armed Services Committee unanimously passed its version of the defense budget for 2021. Lawmakers passed the$740 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in a 56-to-zero vote on Wednesday.
The bill underwent a 14-hour mark-up session before reaching its final form in the House. This is just part of the already extended process of passing the defense bill this year as the coronavirus forced the House mark-up session to be postponed from its originally scheduled date in April.
Despite this delay, Democrat lawmakers in both the House and Senate reportedly used the recent nationwide “If there was ever a moment in America history to fundamental alter our national priorities, now is the time,” said Vermont Democrat Sen. Bernie Sanders.
After much debate, the House bill includes a demand for the Department of Defense to rename bases and other military properties with confederate names within one year.
The Senate’s version of the budget includes a similar policy, although it gives the Pentagon three years to make the change. However, President Trump has threatened to veto the NDAA if it includes this requirement.
The House bill also includes a ban on confederate flags on all defense properties. The committee also denied the amendment to curtail the Insurrection Act, which President Trump threatened to invoke at the peak of rioting last month.
Meanwhile, as the nation continues to grapple with the ongoing pandemic, the bill would allocate $1 billion to the Pentagon’s pandemic preparedness fund.
Last year’s fight over Pentagon funding being used for the southern border wall resurfaced and this year’s bill puts a $100 million cap on emergency use of military construction funding for domestic projects.
The bill also includes an amendment to put limits on potential troop withdrawals from Africa, South Korea, Afghanistan and Germany.
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Here’s an idea: rename the bases after someone else with the same name! Surely there’s someone else named “Bragg” for whom the legendary for can be named.
Wow—that should read, “...for whom the legendary base can be named.”
He's NOT a democrat. He's a SOCIALIST!
Millions of men trained at Fort Benning, Fort Hood, Fort Lee, etc., saved the world from tyranny 1941-45.
I went through the Benning School for Boys (Infantry OCS) and Airborne School at Fort Benning... good memories. I hope they don’t change the name.
I can see it coming...Fort Harvey Milk, Fort Jane Fonda, Fort MLK Jr, Fort Malcolm X, Fort Rosa Parks ETC ETC ETC.
...fort butterfly, fort puppie...
“I went through the Benning School for Boys (Infantry OCS) and Airborne School at Fort Benning... good memories. I hope they don’t change the name.”
I was born there. This’ll be awkward.
I think the RATS and Communists (oh; their the same aren’t they) would prefer names like Camp Snoopy and Fort Scooby Dooby Doo.
But then again all demonrats are commie assholes.
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