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\n Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked the annual defense policy package, a must-pass piece of legislation that usually passes with large bipartisan support, amid their objections over the war in Iran.\n <\/p>\n
\n The vote on the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, was 50-46.\n <\/p>\n
\n There are still several months until the deadline to pass the package, but the Senate\u2019s inability to advance the measure shows how deep divisions over the war could affect policy and funding for the Pentagon.\n <\/p>\n
\n Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, told reporters earlier Tuesday that he sees the package as analogous to backing the war with Iran.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think it reflects a decision to continue funding the war, and there\u2019s been no accountability on the part of this administration,\u201d he said. \u201cBefore I vote on the NDAA, I want to see the administration come forth with the facts about what its strategy is, as well as its end game in Iran \u2014 but basically, approval from Congress as it must do under the War Powers Act.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Sen. Tammy Duckworth, another Democrat on the panel, had warned she would not vote to advance the bill unless it included her amendment to halt additional funding for offensive actions in Iran.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cSimply throwing more money at an out-of-control military operation is not strategy. It\u2019s a recipe for a forever war,\u201d she said in a statement Tuesday morning. \u201cThe stakes couldn\u2019t be higher, and I cannot support a defense authorization bill that doesn\u2019t include my amendment to end this illegal war.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked the annual defense policy package, a must-pass piece of legislation that usually passes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-541795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}