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Baclava

(12,047 posts) Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:14 PM Jun 2018

Senate passes $716B defense bill

The Senate easily cleared a mammoth defense policy bill for the 2019 fiscal year on Monday.

Senators voted 85-10 on the defense authorization legislation, well over the simple majority needed to pass it.

Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y), Kamala Harris (Calif.), Ed Marley (Mass.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and GOP Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Mike Lee (Utah) voted against the bill.

The wide-ranging legislation includes roughly $716 billion in spending, including $617.6 billion for the Pentagon’s base budget and $21.6 billion for defense-related programs of the Energy Department.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/392899-senate-passes-716b-defense-bill

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How many moon bases do we get?

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Senate passes $716B defense bill (Original Post) Baclava Jun 2018 OP

Hooray! I guess 800 military bases abroad are not enough? quartz007 Jun 2018 #1

I guess having the firepower to kill about everything on earth just isn't enough. n/t RKP5637 Jun 2018 #2

A plain example of the paranoid old white men who have of our economic system in the toilet nolabels Jun 2018 #3

quartz007

(1,216 posts)

1. Hooray! I guess 800 military bases abroad are not enough?

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Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:24 PM

Jun 2018

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

2. I guess having the firepower to kill about everything on earth just isn't enough. n/t

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Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:35 PM

Jun 2018

nolabels

(13,133 posts)

3. A plain example of the paranoid old white men who have of our economic system in the toilet

Reply to Baclava (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:41 PM

Jun 2018

I remember a few years back that 500 billion for that budget was big news. There is also that black budget they don't talk about that has trillions that are unaccounted for also.

The Pentagon Can't Account for $21 Trillion (That's Not a Typo)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-pentagon-cant-account-for-21-trillion/

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