{"id":111197,"date":"2026-07-23T15:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/us-house-passes-1t-defense-bill-despite-iran-israel-concerns-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:48:05","slug":"us-house-passes-1t-defense-bill-despite-iran-israel-concerns-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/us-house-passes-1t-defense-bill-despite-iran-israel-concerns-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"US House passes $1T defense bill despite Iran, Israel concerns | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans say the $1 trillion defence bill funds the Iran war, new weapons, troop pay rises and military housing<\/p>\n

The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, July 22, 2026. REUTERS <\/p>\n

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The US House of Representatives narrowly passed its version of a massive defence policy bill on \u200cWednesday, despite Democrats’ concerns about its huge price tag, the Iran war and a provision that would boost Pentagon ties to Israel.<\/p>\n

The fiscal 2027 National Defence Authorisation Act, or NDAA, which authorises an unprecedented $1.15 trillion in spending for the military, passed the House by 216 to \u200b212.<\/p>\n

The vote was largely along party lines, as all but seven Republicans voted in favour of the measure \u200band all but six Democrats voted against.<\/p>\n

Democrats objected to the huge amount of money being authorised \u2060for the Pentagon, at a time when President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans are slashing spending on social programs.<\/p>\n

They \u200balso object to the ongoing and deeply unpopular war with Iran, which the Pentagon said has cost the US<\/a> $37.5 billion so far.<\/p>\n

Republicans \u200bsaid the trillion-dollar spending is essential to support the military as it wages war in Iran, fund defence systems development and equipment purchases and provide benefits for the troops like raises of up to 7% and construction for barracks and family housing.<\/p>\n

Another measure that worried Democrats \u200bwas a provision that would substantially expand military technology cooperation between the United States and Israel, despite calls from many \u200bAmericans \u2014 particularly on the left \u2014 to roll back US support for Israel over concern about the heavy toll on Palestinian civilians of its \u200cattacks \u2060in Gaza.<\/p>\n

In 2026, ‘must-pass’ bill may not pass<\/strong><\/p>\n

Historically seen by both parties as “must-pass legislation”, the NDAA is one of the few major bills that always gets through Congress, having become law for 65 straight years.<\/p>\n

This year’s bill faces major challenges, given deep partisan divisions within Congress on issues ranging from the massive size of the military budget to the Iran war, aid to \u200bIsrael and Ukraine and “culture war” \u200bcauses like the treatment \u2060of transgender troops.<\/p>\n

The fiscal 2027 NDAA’s fate was also complicated because Republicans voted to attach it to the “SAVE America Act”, Trump-backed legislation to tighten restrictions on voting, before sending it to \u200bthe Senate. The impact of that decision on the NDAA’s fate was unclear, given that \u200bthere are \u2060not enough votes in the Senate to pass the voting law.<\/p>\n

Senate Democrats blocked<\/a> the Senate’s version of the NDAA last week. The chamber’s Republican leaders have pledged to try again to advance the bill before leaving Washington for their August recess.<\/p>\n

It is early in \u2060the NDAA \u200bprocess.<\/p>\n

Each year, the House and Senate pass their own versions of the \u200bNDAA, before Armed Services committee negotiators agree on a compromise version that then comes up for a vote in each chamber.<\/p>\n

If the compromise version passes, it would \u200bbe sent to the White House for Trump to sign into law or veto.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans say the $1 trillion defence bill funds the Iran war, new weapons, troop pay rises and military housing The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, July 22, 2026. REUTERS The US House of Representatives narrowly passed its version of a massive defence policy bill on \u200cWednesday, despite Democrats’ concerns about its huge price tag, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/us-whitehouse-r1784816270-0\/us-whitehouse-r1784816270-0-640x480.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t