House Republicans are weighing an effort to tie next year’s funding for the Pentagon to demands that include ending the military’s vaccine mandate and increasing scrutiny of where U.S. aid to Ukraine has gone.
Conservatives in the House have pushed their fellow Republicans to punt a vote on the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act to January, when the GOP will control the lower chamber.LLOYD AUSTIN URGES CONGRESS TO PASS NEW SPENDING BILL TO AVOID 'SIGNIFICANT HARM'
Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus unsuccessfully urged Republicans to oppose the bill over the summer to push for an end to the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Because outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi presides over a narrow Democratic majority that includes progressives who typically vote against the NDAA, she will need some Republican votes if she hopes to finalize the bill before the new Congress is sworn in in January.
House Republicans could use the NDAA fight to force a reevaluation of such policies, as well as the vaccine mandate they have long opposed.
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