US President Donald Trump signed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law Thursday, completing the passage of the largest military spending bill in US history—$901 billion, or over $1 trillion when combined with supplemental funding passed earlier this year.

The Senate voted 77-20 on Wednesday to pass the bill. The Democratic leadership, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, voted for the bill. They were joined by Senators Mark Kelly of Arizona and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, both of whom released a video last month calling on military personnel to disobey illegal orders—as Trump was sending the US military on a murder spree off the coast of Latin America.

Citing Trump’s statements about using troops to shoot protesters in America, Slotkin invoked the legacy of the Nuremberg tribunals, which convicted Nazi leaders for war crimes and crimes against peace. But when it came time to vote, this invocation was revealed to be completely meaningless. Slotkin voted to hand Trump the resources to pursue his military adventure against Venezuela…

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    They’ve been using it to support Gaza Genocide, and to hold a hammer over Zelensky’s head, and to threaten American citizens, so they have too much.

    Nobody is coming for us, and if they do start getting froggy, we can release enough dough to get through, but not enough for MAGA to start thinking they can fund a war of corruption.

    When we have responsible people, and not toddlers, handling the guns, we’ll give them some bullets.

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      The majority of aid to israel is SELLING weapons to them, which does not require any budget because it very literally pays for itself.

      Russia is moving west, China is moving east, deny the facts all you want.

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        Them we better elect a responsible government to deal with it, because the present government will quite literally sell us out to the highest bidder, then use the military that WE funded, to enforce our enslavement.