Posted on Dec 23, 2023
Congress passed the FY24 defense policy bill: Here’s what’s inside
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Thursday’s 310-118 vote in the Republican-held House on the compromise National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2024 came after the Democratic-held Senate did the same in an 87-13 vote on Wednesday.
Congress passed the FY24 defense policy bill: Here’s what’s inside
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@SPC Jeff Daley
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..."also authorizes $300 million for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative in both FY24 and FY25. But that’s a small fraction of the aid the Biden administration assessed Ukraine will need to continue fighting Russia next year, with its $61 billion Ukraine assistance request stalled amid Republican demands for immigration policy changes in the supplemental spending legislation."...
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..."also authorizes $300 million for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative in both FY24 and FY25. But that’s a small fraction of the aid the Biden administration assessed Ukraine will need to continue fighting Russia next year, with its $61 billion Ukraine assistance request stalled amid Republican demands for immigration policy changes in the supplemental spending legislation."...
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CPL LaForest Gray
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V1 : https://youtu.be/SZ8psP4S6BQ?si=R5HA9CgwEqivmRmI
Political Parties were designed to divide. If the average citizen ACTUALLY understood politics, what parties ACTUALLY push in the senate & the congress as bills to become law....
They would stop saying "government" and would call out there representatives as the fellow citizens that they are.
A BILL should be about that and only that. A education bill should have no oil, corporations amendments (riders) attached to pass.
A oil/fuel bill shouldn’t have education or subsidies amendments (riders) attached in order to pass.
We COLLECTIVELY allow and accept a ruling class government because we are irresponsible.
Elected Officials are just citizens with a job.
1.) What is a provision that is attached to a bill that has nothing to do with that bill?
In legislative procedure, a rider is an additional provision added to a bill or other measure under the consideration by a legislature, which may or may not have much, if any, connection with the subject matter of the bill.
In U.S. government, “riders” are bills in the form of additional provisions added to the original versions of bills or resolutions considered by Congress. Often having little relationship to the subject matter of the parent bill, riders are typically used as an often-criticized tactic intended to gain the enactment of a controversial bill that would probably not pass if introduced on its own.
Other riders, known as “wrecking” or “poison pill” bills are used not to actually be passed, but merely to prevent the passage of the parent bill or to ensure its veto by the president.
SOURCE : https://www.thoughtco.com/rider-bills-in-the-us-congress-stealth-legislation-4090449
2.) Riders, Legislative
RIDERS, LEGISLATIVE, are sections or clauses not germane to the subject matter of a bill that are added by amendment before passage for a specific strategic purpose—namely, that the sentiment favorable to the bill will be sufficient to sweep the whole enactment through the final vote and secure executive approval, even though the proposal would probably be defeated by vote or vetoed if submitted separately.
For example, in 1913 Congress attached to an appropriation act a rider exempting labor unions from the Sherman Antitrust Act. President William Howard Taft had to veto the whole bill to annul this provision.
SOURCE : https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/riders-legislative
V1 : https://youtu.be/SZ8psP4S6BQ?si=R5HA9CgwEqivmRmI
Political Parties were designed to divide. If the average citizen ACTUALLY understood politics, what parties ACTUALLY push in the senate & the congress as bills to become law....
They would stop saying "government" and would call out there representatives as the fellow citizens that they are.
A BILL should be about that and only that. A education bill should have no oil, corporations amendments (riders) attached to pass.
A oil/fuel bill shouldn’t have education or subsidies amendments (riders) attached in order to pass.
We COLLECTIVELY allow and accept a ruling class government because we are irresponsible.
Elected Officials are just citizens with a job.
1.) What is a provision that is attached to a bill that has nothing to do with that bill?
In legislative procedure, a rider is an additional provision added to a bill or other measure under the consideration by a legislature, which may or may not have much, if any, connection with the subject matter of the bill.
In U.S. government, “riders” are bills in the form of additional provisions added to the original versions of bills or resolutions considered by Congress. Often having little relationship to the subject matter of the parent bill, riders are typically used as an often-criticized tactic intended to gain the enactment of a controversial bill that would probably not pass if introduced on its own.
Other riders, known as “wrecking” or “poison pill” bills are used not to actually be passed, but merely to prevent the passage of the parent bill or to ensure its veto by the president.
SOURCE : https://www.thoughtco.com/rider-bills-in-the-us-congress-stealth-legislation-4090449
2.) Riders, Legislative
RIDERS, LEGISLATIVE, are sections or clauses not germane to the subject matter of a bill that are added by amendment before passage for a specific strategic purpose—namely, that the sentiment favorable to the bill will be sufficient to sweep the whole enactment through the final vote and secure executive approval, even though the proposal would probably be defeated by vote or vetoed if submitted separately.
For example, in 1913 Congress attached to an appropriation act a rider exempting labor unions from the Sherman Antitrust Act. President William Howard Taft had to veto the whole bill to annul this provision.
SOURCE : https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/riders-legislative
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CPL LaForest Gray absolutely... apparently people weren't taught that in High School.
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SPC Jeff Daley, PhD - Spreading the falsehood that Biden is supporting "open" borders. That is not true and never has been. They are complying with the law as much as possible.
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Pay attention to the *Rider inserted on page 2, keeping in mind that the original bill is for national security and military direct funding.
Nothing outside the scope of those facts would make logical sense to attach … unless you have alternative motives that purposely contradicts the bills originally proposed submission to both the senate and congress pertaining specifically to national defense.
* The proposed amendments would hold up both FO/CO putting both the personal and missions in jeopardy.
1.) FISCAL YEAR 2024 HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS BILL
The Homeland Security bill includes $91.515 billion in total discretionary appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security, including $62.793 billion within the bill’s allocation, $5.837 billion in discretionary appropriations offset by fee collections, and $20.261 billion as an allocation adjustment for major disaster response and recovery activities. The total, within the allocation, is $2.090 billion above the Fiscal Year 2023 level.
* BILL HIGHLIGHTS
* Cuts to Wasteful Spending
* Defunds the Administration's diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives that distract from the core mission by ensuring that no funding can be used to carry out the DHS equity action plan or advance critical race theory.
* No funding for electric vehicles and related infrastructure, saving $97 million from the requested amount and $30 million from the enacted level.
* No funding for DHS Headquarters consolidation, saving $76 million from the requested amount and $188 million from the enacted level.
* Claw-backs of Prior Appropriations
* Rescinds $312 million for climate change activities from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and repurposes those funds for more important border security operations.
Conservative Priorities
* Prohibits funding from being used to label Americans constitutionally protected speech as "misinformation."
* Includes a prohibition of funding for gender-affirming care, including hormone therapy medication and surgery, for ICE detainees.
** Does not fund the following requested activities:
* $165 million for a third Joint Processing Center;
* $97.3 million for electric vehicle infrastructure;
* $76.2 million for headquarters consolidation at St. Elizabeths;
* $4.7 million for the establishment of a Chief Diversity and Inclusion Office within the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer; and o 53.3 million for Department-wide climate change initiatives.
SOURCE : https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/republicans.appropriations.house.gov/files/documents/FY24%20Homeland%20Security%20-%20Bill%20Summary%20Updated%206.21.23.pdf
2.) Summary of the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense
Authorization Act
For the 63d consecutive year, Congress has reached a bipartisan, bicameral agreement to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Each year, the NDAA authorizes funding levels and provides authorities for the U.S. military and other critical defense priorities, ensuring our troops have the training, equipment, and resources they need to carry out their missions.
This year's agreement, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, addresses the most significant national security priorities for the United States, including strategic competition with China and Russia; disruptive technologies like hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing; modernizing America's ships, aircraft, and combat vehicles; and improving the lives of our servicemembers and their families.
FY 2024 DEFENSE FUNDING LEVELS
The 63rd annual NDAA supports a total of $883.7 billion in fiscal year 2024 funding for national defense.
Within this topline, the legislation authorizes $841.4 billion for the Department of Defense (DOD), $32.4 billion for national security programs within the Department of Energy (DOE), and $438.0 million in defense-related activities.
SOURCE : https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy24_ndaa_conference_executive_summary1.pdf
Pay attention to the *Rider inserted on page 2, keeping in mind that the original bill is for national security and military direct funding.
Nothing outside the scope of those facts would make logical sense to attach … unless you have alternative motives that purposely contradicts the bills originally proposed submission to both the senate and congress pertaining specifically to national defense.
* The proposed amendments would hold up both FO/CO putting both the personal and missions in jeopardy.
1.) FISCAL YEAR 2024 HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS BILL
The Homeland Security bill includes $91.515 billion in total discretionary appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security, including $62.793 billion within the bill’s allocation, $5.837 billion in discretionary appropriations offset by fee collections, and $20.261 billion as an allocation adjustment for major disaster response and recovery activities. The total, within the allocation, is $2.090 billion above the Fiscal Year 2023 level.
* BILL HIGHLIGHTS
* Cuts to Wasteful Spending
* Defunds the Administration's diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives that distract from the core mission by ensuring that no funding can be used to carry out the DHS equity action plan or advance critical race theory.
* No funding for electric vehicles and related infrastructure, saving $97 million from the requested amount and $30 million from the enacted level.
* No funding for DHS Headquarters consolidation, saving $76 million from the requested amount and $188 million from the enacted level.
* Claw-backs of Prior Appropriations
* Rescinds $312 million for climate change activities from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and repurposes those funds for more important border security operations.
Conservative Priorities
* Prohibits funding from being used to label Americans constitutionally protected speech as "misinformation."
* Includes a prohibition of funding for gender-affirming care, including hormone therapy medication and surgery, for ICE detainees.
** Does not fund the following requested activities:
* $165 million for a third Joint Processing Center;
* $97.3 million for electric vehicle infrastructure;
* $76.2 million for headquarters consolidation at St. Elizabeths;
* $4.7 million for the establishment of a Chief Diversity and Inclusion Office within the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer; and o 53.3 million for Department-wide climate change initiatives.
SOURCE : https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/republicans.appropriations.house.gov/files/documents/FY24%20Homeland%20Security%20-%20Bill%20Summary%20Updated%206.21.23.pdf
2.) Summary of the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense
Authorization Act
For the 63d consecutive year, Congress has reached a bipartisan, bicameral agreement to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Each year, the NDAA authorizes funding levels and provides authorities for the U.S. military and other critical defense priorities, ensuring our troops have the training, equipment, and resources they need to carry out their missions.
This year's agreement, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, addresses the most significant national security priorities for the United States, including strategic competition with China and Russia; disruptive technologies like hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing; modernizing America's ships, aircraft, and combat vehicles; and improving the lives of our servicemembers and their families.
FY 2024 DEFENSE FUNDING LEVELS
The 63rd annual NDAA supports a total of $883.7 billion in fiscal year 2024 funding for national defense.
Within this topline, the legislation authorizes $841.4 billion for the Department of Defense (DOD), $32.4 billion for national security programs within the Department of Energy (DOE), and $438.0 million in defense-related activities.
SOURCE : https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy24_ndaa_conference_executive_summary1.pdf
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