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Wednesday, July 22, 2026

The US House of Representatives passed a $1.15tn defense policy bill in a near-party-line vote on Wednesday, after Democrats refused to back the measure amid the war with Iran and Donald Trump's push to impose new restrictions on voting nationwide. A key plank of the president's plan to spend $1.5tn on the military in the 2027 fiscal year, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passed the Republican-controlled chamber by a 216-212 vote, with all but six Democrats opposing its passage. Seven House Republicans broke ranks to oppose it. The measure now goes to the Senate.

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The $1.15 trillion is not the end of the request.

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The remaining $350 billion, which the bill does not address, would come through a separate party-line reconciliation bill.

The full $1.5 trillion request amounts to roughly a 50 percent hike in defense spending from the current year's level. The eye-popping total is seen as a long shot on Capitol Hill. But defense hawks have argued Congress must secure as much money as possible for the military to modernize and to meet emerging threats.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/house-republicans-pass-defense-bill-01008493

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$1 and a half TRILLION

that is more than the next 14 countries combined

3 of which-Russia, Ukraine and Israel are in an active shooting war

This is ------- madness

#1 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-07-22 05:12 PM | Reply

No one even debates whether we should be spending this money

or

what it is being spent on

why not $2 trillion or $5 trillion

Who gives a ----

#2 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-07-22 05:14 PM | Reply

instead, for just a trillion we could get

Potential Social Program Impacts

Direct Cash Payments: Provide roughly $7,500 to each American household if distributed equally.

Higher Education: Pay for the complete four-year college tuition and costs for about 7.7 million students.

Childhood Support: Raise and support 4.3 million children from birth through age 18, covering all of their basic living and development needs.

Healthcare and Nutrition: Fund major portions of federal health coverage or food assistance, which already span over 80 distinct means-tested programs nationwide.

------- madness

#3 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-07-22 05:14 PM | Reply

Never mind the massive corruption

Never mind the lack of any proper accounting

Never mind the damage this military socialism creates

Never mind the addiction to military spending this creates in our economy

never mind the wars this spending absolutely demands

Never mind the inevitable collapse from all of this debt

Never mind the raising up of scum like hegseth

Never mind the cost in dead and wounded servicemen

I ask why can't anyone argue for peace, for diplomacy, for NOT ------- killing?

#4 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-07-22 05:17 PM | Reply

It's going to die in the Senate.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-22 05:20 PM | Reply

Why are only the war mongers who are always wrong the only ones taken seriously?

Where are the people who are for a rational, adult, moderate intelligent foreign policy?

Why do we have to cut funding for the poor and sick around the world (cutting USAID) when we spend a million percentage more on defense?

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-07-22 05:20 PM | Reply

Did you know Piggy condemns Canada for their wildfire and recognizes "we didn't use to see these massive wildfires" {paraphrase]

Yes Piggy those wildfires are due to YOUR climate change policies and the result of your party's climate policies for the past 3 decades

#7 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-07-22 05:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Contractors are extracting as much as possible from Americans.

#8 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-07-22 05:28 PM | Reply

"All but six Democrats opposed its passage: Don Davis (NC), Jared Golden (ME), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA), Josh Gottheimer (NJ), Ed Case (HI), and Henry Cuellar (TX)."

"I wager five thousand quatloos these six Democrats are AIPAC recipients!"

~snip~

"Oh, please Coriolanus, don't annoy us by adding the AIPAC images of these six horrible Islamophobes in this thread! Please!"

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-22 05:47 PM | Reply

$1.15tn defense policy bill

Now is the time to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid by $1.15 trillion!
--Republicans

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-22 05:50 PM | Reply

"Why are only the war mongers who are always wrong the only ones taken seriously?"

Probably the same reason men who rape children sit in the highest offices of power in this country.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-22 05:57 PM | Reply

Did you know Piggy condemns Canada for their wildfire and recognizes "we didn't use to see these massive wildfires" {paraphrase]
Yes Piggy those wildfires are due to YOUR climate change policies and the result of your party's climate policies for the past 3 decades
#7 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-07-22 05:22 PM | Reply | Flag:

LMAO Now it's Trump's fault and only the republicans. Do you realize how much oil and gas Canada produces? They're #4 globally behind the US, SA and Russia

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-22 06:47 PM | Reply

Turds.

Do you actually believe in climate change?

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-22 06:51 PM | Reply

Do you actually believe in climate change?

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-22 06:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

I do, but how does that address my #12?

#14 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-22 06:57 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

I was just curious about whether you actually believed in global climate change.

Nothing to do with #12.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-22 06:59 PM | Reply

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