The $858 billion legislation now heads to President Biden for his signature. This year, it directs more military aid for Ukraine and Taiwan with unprecedented levels of security assistance, a pay raise for service members and measures to address inflation.
Democrats were forced to capitulate to GOP demands to curtail the vaccine mandate after a large segment of the party threatened to withhold their support for the legislation otherwise.
abandon an effort to attach legislation to the defense bill championed by Sen. Joe Manchin III to restructure the way permits are awarded for energy infrastructure projects. A vote on the bill had been a key part of the deal to get Manchin, who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, to support the Inflation Reduction Act that passed Congress this summer and that Biden signed in August.Manchin did ultimately get that vote on Thursday, as an amendment to the defense policy bill.
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