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Senate & House pass $866B Pentagon bill with little media coverage
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:24:38
Publish Date: 2023-08-02 15:00:00
Description: On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the record setting $866B military spending bill, which recently passed the Senate and House. Only 11 Senators voted against the bill. Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment that would’ve cut the Pentagon budget by 10 percent. He said the Pentagon cannot keep track of the dollars it already has, leading to massive waste, fraud and abuse in the sprawling military-industrial complex. The amendment failed 88-11. On the House side, the bill passed 219 to 210, largely along party lines because of Republican sponsored anti-abortion and anti-trans amendments. Lawmakers will now work out a compromise version of the two. Once again, the bill failed to get the major media coverage it deserved. What will it take to change that?
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