Senate set to approve $95B security supplemental as defense industrial base awaits boost

By Tony Bertuca / April 23, 2024 at 1:52 PM
( UPDATE: The Senate voted 79-18 to pass the supplemental spending package .) Senate leaders, following the House's weekend passage of a massive national security supplemental poised to inject $50 billion into the U.S. defense sector, is taking up the spending package and hopes to pass it late tonight amid the objections of some lawmakers. The $95 billion spending measure, which passed the House in several bills that would aid Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, pay for ongoing U.S. operations in the...

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