After clearing the Senate by a wide margin, is the NDAA back on track, or are the divisive cultural issues clogging the House bill still threatening its final passage? One longtime Senate insider and retired two-star general charts the endgame.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville speaks with reporters at the U.S. Capitol on July 10, 2023. | Francis Chung/POLITICOThis week, the action in the Senate was all about the annual defense authorization — the NDAA. Usually, the argument about what goes into this enormous bill that governs everything the military can and can’t do is a word soup cooked-up by defense nerds.
But this time around, many in Washington are beginning to wonder if a new set of acronyms is fatally imperiling our armed forces. Issues like DEI, CRT, and abortion may be sinking a bill that has never failed to pass in more than 60 years. Meanwhile in the background, a separate drama is still playing out: that of Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s beef with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over abortion policy.
Will this last sacred piece of bipartisanship in Congress succumb to the divisive forces that have sunk many before?
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