Daily on Defense 🇺🇸 — House GOP vote on abortion travel amendment roils Democrats, threatens passage of annual defense policy bill
HOUSE NDAA TARGETS DOD ABORTION POLICY: While Republicans and Democrats accuse each other of politicizing the annual defense policy bill, one thing is clear: the version of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act emerging from the House is laden with highly-partisan hot-button social issues that likely mean it will have to be passed with only Republican votes.
“We worked with our colleagues in committee to pass a bill in an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote,” said Smith and seven of his fellow Democrats in a statement issued last night. “The bill we passed out of committee sent a clear, united message to our allies and partners, global competitors, and the American people that democracy still works, and Congress is still functional … That bill no longer exists.
“This is a national security issue. It's a readiness issue. And we shouldn't kid ourselves. I think any member of the Senate Armed Services Committee knows that,” Austin said in an interview with CNN conducted before the call. “He needs to lift the holds.” “We just got them. We haven't used them yet,” Brig. Gen. Oleksander Tarnavsky told CNN’s Alex Marquardt. “But they can radically change the battlefield. The enemy also understands that with getting this ammunition, we will have an advantage.”
“Where they are gaining hundreds of meters a day, maybe a kilometer a day in some places, they're doing that at great cost in terms of effort,” he said. “So this is hard warfare, it's in really tough terrain, it's under fire, and really, when you consider all of that, it's pretty remarkable.” “Popov’s dismissal over the issue of Russian casualties and reported complaints about lack of force rotations further supports ISW’s assessment that Russian defenses in Ukraine are likely brittle,” the Institute for the Study of War said in its latest assessment.
Retired Gen. Robert Abrams, former U.S. Korea commander, told ABC News he doubts Prigozhin is still alive. “I personally don’t think he is, and if he is, he’s in a prison somewhere,”Washington Examiner: House GOP advances dozens of controversial amendments, threatening Democratic NDAA supportWashington Examiner: Biden ridicules Tuberville's 'ridiculous' hold on Pentagon nominations
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